Naturally Typing
While perusing the App Store last night I discovered Dragons Naturally Speaking dictation app which was available for free download. Given typing on the iPhone keyboard isn’t the fasted of input methods (although it’s pretty good given the size of the keyboard) and considering entering any kind of HTML is a complete sod (yes, all those links, the foot notes, all that stuff I have to painstakingly enter by hand, just for you) I thought I would give it a go.
Apparently it works like this: You install the app, you dictate your text, it fires that off to a server somewhere, that converts it to text and the app presents you with said text.
What really happens is you fire up the app, it fails to connect to the server even before you’ve managed to do anything, you give up, write the blog the old skool way with keyboard and thumb. Hey ho.