Top Speech Recognition Apps for iPad
Typing and writing aren’t the only ways you can get text onto your iPad.How about talking?
One of the first—and,in my opinion,coolest—iPad apps is the free Dragon Dictation from Nuance Communications(makers of Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows and MacSpeech Dictate for Mac, http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/).Open this app,tap the record button,and start talking.Tap the screen when you’re done,and whatever you just spoke appears a few moments later as editable text. Because it’s speaker-independent,you can even use it to transcribe brief conversations. But there is a small catch:each recording can last only 60 seconds,although you can combine a series of recordings into a single block of text.
I’ve been blown away by this app’s accuracy.Not perfect,mind you, but incredibly impressive.You can,of course,edit the text to correct any mistakes,and you can send the text as an email message or copy it to use in any other app.
Oh,and did I mention that it’s free?If you want to show someone how cool your iPad is,this makes for a mighty fine demonstration.
