The dictation mode does exactly what one would expect: transcribe your words as you speak them.
Dictation reaches near 100% accuracy with the combination of speech to text and lip reading.
Scipio's amanuensis, who is taking the great man's dictation, tells his own story at the same time.
Understanding is crucial not only to accurate translation, but also for dictation and rendering text as speech.
Computerized speech dictation will not make a doer out of a procrastinator or a hero out of a coward.
On the iPhone, the system only reveals its rendering of your dictation after you've tapped on a "Done" button.
But since when is it our job solely to take dictation from pols?
Aides to communications director Don Baer have taken dictation from Morris as he suggested language for a presidential press conference.
That is because dictation programs try and anticipate what you are likely to say next in order to conserve system resources.
Forbes Digital Tool recently tested two state-of-the-art voice dictation programs: IBM's ViaVoice Gold and Dragon NaturallySpeaking from privately held Dragon Systems.
Mountain Lion will contain more than 2, 000 new features, including iMessages, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
But as the results show, even 95% accuracy will be unacceptable to all but the most keyboard-averse when it comes to dictation.
While direct dictation garners the most attention for voice-recognition programs, it's the ability to launch and control applications that impresses MacSpeech's Rogers.
Do they still get coffee, buy gifts for relatives, even take dictation?
Secretaries, co-authors, book editors and spouses can take dictation, spell and proofread.
They'll include iMessages, the texting feature already available on mobile devices, speech-to-text dictation and predictive "smart search" in the Safari browser.
The iPad is based on the new A5X quad core graphics chip, features a 5 megapixel camera, 1080p video recording, and voice dictation.
Use Mountain Lion's Dictation feature in Windows apps, organize Windows "Metro-style" applications in Launchpad, and enjoy the brilliant Retina-display resolution in Windows applications.
Dale Ford, a Gartner Group analyst, sees magazine articles and other short selections as the most likely use for dictation on MP3 players.
To this I would add the large share of clinical documentation that is captured in narrative form via dictation or direct entry by clinicians.
This particular button is simply the myTouch-branded version of voice dictation: tell it to make calls, dictate texts, search the web and set up your navigation.
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Another odd glitch: The Mountain Lion online help system alludes to spoken commands you can use with dictation, such as "all caps" to CAPITALIZE the next word.
Dictation is built into Mountain Lion and allows you to dictate text anywhere you can type, whether you're using an app from Apple or a third party developer.
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As with Siri and iOS dictation, you need to be online for this to work: Mountain Lion captures your voice and sends the recording to the cloud for processing.
We weren't able to test it out during our brief tenure with the phones, but we can't imagine the experience will be much different than your standard voice dictation service.
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Swype has also expanded dictation capabilities and now supports Dragon Dictation in a dozen new languages including Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Malay, Romanian, Slovak, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, and Ukrainian.
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All the same, one thing leads to another with such ease and inexorable logic that the script could have been created by the filmmaker taking dictation from the people on screen.
If you like to talk rather than type you'll be happy to know that SwiftKey now incorporates Google voice typing for continuing dictation, if you are using Android Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean (4.0 or 4.1).
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