Does anyone have experience with using dictation software for creative writing?

I haven't used it in years, and it may be better now, but my experience was that it would periodically misinterpret whole phrases. The problem was not that it made more errors than I did typing -- my typing has never been good. The problem was that when I made a mistake it tended to be misspelling or mistyping a word in a way that made it obvious what the intended word was, but when the dictation software made a mistake, it substituted a completely different phrase from the on I had intended. It didn't make spelling mistakes or typos. It typed something different from what I had said. And the problem with that was that in reading it over I often found that I had a very hard time figuring out what phrase I had actually spoken. Even if the phrase it had inserted did not make much sense, it still got in the way of remembering what the original phrase was. The results were therefore very confusing and hard to correct. I gave it up for this reason. With my poor typing I had a typing problem. With the dictation software's imperfect recognition, I was actually losing my intended meaning, not merely on the page, but in my head.

posted over 7 years ago

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Mark Baker‭

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