Killer Apps 2.1 – Voice to Text on Your Computer
I wrote on my last post about how Siri on the iPhone was just the tip of the iceberg for speech-to-text software. Fine and good, but what about voice-2-text on your computer?
If you have a Mac running Lion OS X 10.7 Lion, you can see the future now. If you don’t, check this out anyway, you’ll see it soon enough.
Dragon Comes to the Utilities World
Dragon is the full-blown software product line of Nuance communications, pretty much the industry leader in voice to text. It’s powerful stuff, somewhat expensive, and getting better all the time.
But now there’s a new kid on the block: a utility version of Dragon, called Dragon Express. Simplified, to be sure, but available instantly at a keystroke. Click – start talking.
But it’s easier to show than to talk about. Check out the short video I did below.
As I said before, voice to text represents a quantum leap in the efficiency of communications, the likes of which we haven’t seen in some time. It’s just getting started, and will be exciting to watch develop.