More recently, we’ve become used to dictating short text messages using the dictation capabilities in iOS.ĭictation in iOS is far from perfect, but when the alternative is typing on a tiny virtual keyboard, even imperfect voice input is welcome. (And yes, I dictated the first draft of this article.) Dictation is a skill, but it’s one that many lawyers and executives of yesteryear managed to pick up. More interesting is dictation, where you craft text by speaking to your device rather than by typing on a keyboard. However, the simple fact is that modern-day computer interfaces are designed to be navigated and manipulated with a pointing device and a keyboard. The Mac has long had voice control, and the current incarnation in macOS 10.15 Catalina is pretty good for those who rely on it. The problem has always been that what we want to do with our computers doesn’t necessarily lend itself to voice interaction. Or, rather, we have mostly wanted to control our computers via voice-see episodes of Star Trek from the 1960s. Speech recognition has long been the holy grail of computer data input. How iOS and macOS Dictation Can Learn from Voice Control’s Dictation
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