I received Dragon Dictation on my phone for free when I bought the Swype keyboard app from Nuance.com and decided to use it to dictate an old manuscript into Evernote for editing and resurrection. It has produced some interesting results I thought you’d be amused by. I am, at least.
Think you can read the dictated versions below correctly? To read what I really said, hover your mouse over the green links below for the answer to pop up.
The dictated version:
Bestie Souper had walked in and proceeded to boost behind Rob. Rob’s neck Harris server has his eyes met with the Brody man’s for a split second.
The dictated version:
There was only one face he was interested in seeing and he scanned the jam room in search of it.
The dictated version:
She was forced to quit her steps to matches.
The dictated version:
As he drove, Rob thought the six feelings.
The dictated version:
Ranging from pain to trial. He had finally sent her.
The dictated version:
She walked the smile through tall man dressed in formal wear
The dictated version:
Two heartless windows stared from either side of the door and the whole façade slanted in perceptively here, . Elsewhere, the chlorine was surrounded by the same tree shadows
Isn’t it supposed to improve as you continue to use it and correct it?
So I hope. To be fair, the majority of the time it works pretty good. I will continue to use it and see if it’s better by the time the whole book is dictated.