[NTLK] iPad

[Steve Goldberg]

Ryan,
Try "Dragon Dictation" - an existing iPhone app. It was free when I  
downloaded it.

Very accurate speech to text conversion, then you can paste the text  
into whatever - email, note. Check it out.

The iPad will have a microphone!

Sweet.
Steve

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On Jan 28, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Ryan Vetter <physicalconstants at yahoo.ca>  
wrote:

> Oh, and, I see lots of comments on HWR.  While that would be great  
> to have it, it's also slow to input lots of information this way  
> too.  When you think about it, inputting text with an on screen  
> keyboard may actually be faster and easier.  Where I see a stylus of  
> use on this is for graphic design, directly on the screen.  But the  
> device does not support direct stylus input with it's glass screen,  
> barring third party, 'spongey' solutions.
>
> HWR would really come into its own, if you could write anywhere on  
> the screen, and it would render your writing directly in the  
> location and within the application you are writing in.  For  
> example, Mail.  If you start writing in the message area, your  
> writing stays within that message area.  There is no yellow notepad  
> that pops up, getting in the way of everything else.  That is more  
> natural, and more how the Newton worked.  Then, it would be  
> converting your handwriting on the fly.
>
> But handwriting is not a solution for large amounts of text.  It's  
> not that the software is too slow, it just takes too long to write  
> things out like that.  Speech recognition is a solution, as those  
> who came to WWNC can attest to.  A bluetooth keyboard is also a  
> solution to inputting large amounts of text.  The on-screen  
> keyboard... I will make the most of it.  Let's see how it turns  
> out.  But the way I see it, speech recognition is the killer input  
> method for this.  This is a device that is supposed to sort of  
> disappear, and let you experience the web, multi-media, even while  
> doing production work.
>
> If you can combine this experience with speech recognition, where  
> you just say things, as fast as you want, and it gets converted into  
> text, it will be that much more compelling.  MacSpeech Dictate on OS  
> X is already amazing.  I hope we see it ported to the iPhone OS.
>
> I know speech recognition has limitations in terms of environment,  
> but if you really think about it, I doubt most people are inputting  
> large amounts of text in noisy, non-private places when using a  
> keyboard.  We do those things in our offices, airport lounges..  
> quieter places.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Larry Yaeger <lsynt3 at beanblossom.in.us>
> To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
> Sent: Thu, January 28, 2010 12:45:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] iPad
>
> At 5:09 AM -0800 1/28/10, Matej Horvat wrote:
>> It also doesn't seem to have a global Newton/Spotlight-like search  
>> feature.
>
> Actually, it does.  This was mentioned during the keynote, and is  
> already present on the iPhone, from which the iPad was derived.
>
> - larryy
>
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