Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Love the dictation feature!

Indigovalley

Indigovalley

macrumors regular
Original poster
May 14, 2011
171
77
Minnesota, USA
If you haven't played with the dictation feature yet it's a blast. You can just speak the name of a website and it will find it for you. In Keynote you can dictate all your text--same on pages.

As a teacher the dictation feature will allow me to make Keynote presentations much faster as I am slow at typing on the iPad. It's lots of fun and has applications for students with typing/writing issues as well.

Only wish they had included SIRI with it--I really could have used that day to day as well...
 
I've only used it a handful of times so far and the results, at least with my experience, have left much to be desired. I hope it improves in the future. However, it could just be my voice.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

I've never used it. I'll turn it on later to try it.
 
When I have used it the feature has been pretty accurate with an occasional error. I make a point to speak clearly and distinctly. I'm sure some voices might work better than others. The surrounding room noise may make a difference also.
 
I keep forgetting the mic is on the top, so I talk to the bottom like I would with my phone. Once I started speaking at the mic it works like a charm.
 
Aqua Bliss said:
When I go to the website bar to type in a URL, I do not see that dictation button showing at that time. Does anyone else have this problem?
Click to expand...

You're right, it does not show up in the address bar. However, it does show up in the Google search bar next to it.
 
Been using the iPad to check my work email just so I can dictate a response working so great
 
I'm loving mine, too! I've updated Facebook, sent an email, searched the Internet, and I'm dictating this entry!
 
Okay, never mind, I figured it out myself. I actually read the manual, and I am using dictation to type this. I don't know how often I would use this, but it's pretty cool to play with.
 
cadillac1234 said:
Nobody understands the South African accent :D
Click to expand...
Tell me about it! I married a Yankee, moved to California, and people look at me like I'm speaking a foreign language! The accent is similar to a British one, so one would think it would be crystal clear...........not!:p In a different thread here, when I tested it, I got some hilarious results, for eg, it interpreted "at all" as "*******". :mad: Sheesh!
 
dictation so far has worked pretty well- the camera's really disapointing, I read somewhere that the camera's are two year old components and that is disapointing- the camera quality in this ipad 3 is not acceptable in my opinion-apple's supposed to be the audio visual guru but I will guess the next one will see a big improvement !!!
 
I was pleasantly surprised at how well it did work in the brief time I have used it. Bonus feature!
 
Indigovalley said:
If you haven't played with the dictation feature yet it's a blast. You can just speak the name of a website and it will find it for you. In Keynote you can dictate all your text--same on pages.

As a teacher the dictation feature will allow me to make Keynote presentations much faster as I am slow at typing on the iPad. It's lots of fun and has applications for students with typing/writing issues as well.

Only wish they had included SIRI with it--I really could have used that day to day as well...
Click to expand...

I have had this feature on my Android phones for years. Glad they finally put it on the iPad.
 
can anyone figure out how to capitalize the first word of the first sentence?
Subsequenct lines are capitalized automatically.
I tried saying "cap" before the first word but that seems to only work when you're in a sentence.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back