speech to text
Droid has speech to text. In any text box, you can hit the microphone button, speak into the phone and it will transcribe your words into text. I’ve found it to be mostly accurate. Only trouble is I feel silly using it when people are around.
Other day, my wife asked me to pick up bread on the way home the next day. If I don’t get a reminder, I’ll forget. So, I opened up the calendar app, hit the appropriate time and looked at the phone and said “bread”. I started laughing. Wife said What’s so funny? I said Text to speech error. She asked what it spelled out and I told her “boobs”. I said it must read minds instead.
August 6th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Shhh, that mind-reading app is still experimental. You probably weren’t supposed to get it.
But I think you mean “speech to text.” (Though it is linux based, so a text to speech app shouldn’t be too difficult for someone to put together.)
August 6th, 2010 at 10:32 am
dammit. i suck at typing.
August 6th, 2010 at 10:39 am
The speech to text is hit or miss. I usually have to talk very monotone and pronounce every syllable, I’ve gotten some doozies otherwise.
August 6th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Speech to blog?
August 6th, 2010 at 10:54 am
I could try that.
August 6th, 2010 at 11:16 am
And all we would get is this:
(.) (.)
😀
August 6th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Discovered this the other day on my EVO. I’ve been talking to my bloody phone almost non-stop since.
August 7th, 2010 at 2:11 am
Itsa good thing you didn’t say ‘fish’.
August 7th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Awesome.