Speech to Text Documents

[Talraine]

Hello Android Users!

First time here on the forums, but I've been using android for a little over 3 years now. I recently upgraded to the Raider, and as an avid writer, I am inquiring about a speech to text app that will work with an office suite available on the android market. I want it to be able to save the document in a format I can transfer and open in Microsoft Office or Open Office on my PC. Sometimes that need to jot some notes down jumps at me, looking for an alternative to carrying a notebook with me. I figured that I always have my phone on me, speaking to it and having it do the leg work while on the go is just what I need.

Hoping you might have some ideas for me!

Thank you all

 

[wordcreatr]

As a writer who is constantly on the go, I'm interested in this too. I use Documents to Go and I'd buy a reasonably priced app to let me dictate into a Word doc using my phone. Anything out there? I was surprised that Dragon doesn't appear to have anything -- but on second thought, then people probably wouldn't pay for their highly priced PC software.


The built-in voice to text works in Word, but the problem is that it is not constant - I have to repeatedly hit the mic button to put in a new sentence, which is not going to work for me. Also, it lacks the functionality of a program like Dragon where I can tell it to start a new paragraph, indent, scratch that, etc.

 

[funpig]

There is a free Dragon Dictation app (by Nuance) for the iPhone. I loaded it up on my wife's iphone 3GS and it works almost flawlessly. You need to have an internet connection (wifi will work). You just dictate and it converts it into text. Then you can save or cut and paste it into a office or word processing app. I hope that Nuance will develop this app for Android. I use a built in version of Nuance voice control (just to voice dial and control phone; and no internet connection required to work) in my LG and it works very well.

 

[jae_63]

The commercial FlexT9 android keyboard from Nuance (which also owns the Dragon products) does a better job with dictation than Google, imho.

I am a longtime desktop dragon user and have found that much of the voice syntax for adding punctuation is similar with flext9.