Justin Duino / How-To Geek
For years we were promised voice dictation that was accurate, real-time, and easy. Today that promise has (largely) come true, but should you write your next work report, dissertation, or novel using your voice? Maybe not, as it turns out.
We Don’t Write The Way We Speak
The biggest problem with dictating any serious writing is that, unlike reading, writing isn’t a linear process. We don’t think out whole paragraphs and sentences on the fly, so speaking the written word is rarely efficient.
Instead, writing goes back and forth. We stop and think. Then type out a torrent of words once those thoughts are in order. With the way current dictation systems work, it’s hard to have this natural writing cadence work smoothly. The alternative is to adapt how we write to dictation. This author has certainly tried, but it doesn’t seems conducive to the writing process, regardless of what you write.
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