Did You Know that You Can Dictate Email Messages on your iPhone?

It’s now possible to have your iPhone transcribe your speech. Last week, Dragon Dictate, a temporarily free application was added to the iTunes App Store. This application records your voice and then transcribes it and lets you paste the text into a new email message, text message or any other iPhone application. I tested it last week. It’s not perfect but it works surprisingly well. The transcription is accomplished by sending the audio recording to Dragon’s servers which quickly do their best to recognize what you spoke and convert it into text. This recognition process is not always 100% accurate, but one has the chance to edit it and correct mistakes. Another problem that I encountered was the recording sometimes stopped abruptly and inexplicably. This wasn’t a big deal since I could resume recording easily enough. Dictating emails was faster then typing a message on the iPhone’s keyboard so this is a significant time saver. I’m sure that Dragon will charge for this application in the future. I’m confident that I’ll continue to use this application.