I am writing this blog post not by typing but by talking. I am using Dragon's Dictation software on my iPhone. The accuracy is phenomenal, nearly 100% if I speak clearly and slowly, oh, and a quiet background should help, too. The actual transcribing is done not on the iPhone but transferred over the air, yet you hardly notice it, because the speed is almost instantaneous. So a 3G or a wi-fi connection is required for the app to work. While dictation software costs hundreds of dollars on the PC or Mac, this iPhone app is actually free, supposedly for a limited time. It still has work to do in terms of usability, but for its core function, turning an iPhone into a portable dictation device, it has done an admirable feat. After transcribing, I only needed to do minor manual editing before copying this text over to iBlogger to post to my blog right from the iPhone. Now that's something I wasn't expecting to be able to do in 2010.
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