So the industry standard for dictation to text, Nuance's Dragon software, has been discontinued on the Mac platform. There is a an app for iOS, Dragon Anywhere, but it is...lacking. The biggest problem is that it cuts out and stops recording if it drops the internet connection, but doesn't alert you to this fact. So if, like me, you close your eyes or zone out to get in the flow, you can lose thousands of words. My current work around is to record voice memos, then play those back over a speaker into my freaking phone, which then transcribes them. Which is ridiculous. Help?
I don't mind recording voice memos -- I actually like having a back up, as voice transcription software is not the most accurate thing in the world, and I won't always remember a particular turn of phrase when confronted with the Dragon-generated gibberish in the transcribed document -- but having to play them, in real time, into my phone, is, in addition to being silly, double the time commitment. Ideally I would like a service where you can upload audio files and some sort of computer magic transcribes it in ...computer time... but I literally do not know if this is technically possible, let alone available.
Does this exist?
Does this exist for Mac?
If it doesn't exist, is there something less silly that does and that works reasonably well for fiction?
I can continue with my ridiculous work around, but would prefer something less dumb.
Sidenote: Dragon appears to hate Mac users? And so does Apple? Because WOW does this make Macs super inaccessible for lots of people with disabilities. That is just...wow. Really bad. Which is I think why I'm so gobsmacked -- there's GOT to be something better, right? Right? |
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