Computer, speak to me
And take notes while you’re at it.
Or, in other words, I’m wondering what the current state of text to speech and speech to text software is. Given the amount of hours in a day and looking at my todo list and it’s clear I’ve got a problem. Or problem… I simply can’t squeeze everything in those mere 24 hours, especially if you take out time for such boring things as sleeping, working and commuting. Commuting takes me about 2 hours a day, so it would be brilliant if I could do something else while driving to and back from work.
Which got me thinking, it would be lovely if I could plonk some software on a laptop or ultra portable and have it, for example, read out the news to me from a batch of selected RSS feeds. Equally it would be brilliant if the damn thing would listen to my voice so I could operate it, and have it take notes, for example I could dictate whole blog entries, or finally note down all the ideas I get for new stuff which I for some reason mostly forget once I get out of the car.
Is there anyone who has any experience with doing anything like this, either on Windows, Os X or any flavor of Linux?
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind
