Hello, today I am going to talk about speech to text applications.
I recently read a post at Wealthy Affiliate where a member was using a
phone to write content for a blog using a speech to text app.
This person mentioned that once gotten used to, they were able to get more
content out.
So I thought I would give it a try.
I am at my desk typing on the ole laptop and am getting ready to download
some of the speech to text apps to try and see if I can find one that may be
more responsive than the rest.
It would be a different experience to go out about daily tasks and at the
same time write/speak content for my blog.
There are some apps that may also have a desktop version available for this
task and I will be looking at this to see if there would be any advantage or
more options making things any easier combining them both.
I have decided to pick the top 4 Android apps and use them during this post
so that if anyone else wants to give it a go they will available info to start
from.
I am using there reviews and star rating as a guide to pick the top four.
Voice Notes
- 4.6 Stars
- 5K Reviews
- 100K Downloads
- Everyone Rated
- Place of Origin – Sankt – Petersburg Russia
Voice Notes has many features and when you click on the app the first page
that will come up will be a 
page with a top menu
that consists of NOTES, REMINDERS, and
CATEGORIES which include all of your transcribed
notes and a + icon to add new ones.
This app has a feature that you would
voice to text in the reminder mode
and it would sync to your Google Calendar Account.
That would be handy in remembering special dates along with notes or gift
ideas.
Clicking on the menu icon will bring you to the main menu including
Settings that has a large submenu.
Voice NoteBook
- 4.4 Stars
- 1K Reviews
- 100K Downloads
- Everyone Rated
- Moscow Russia
Voice Notebook has a fairly easy interface and is not hard to learn once you
try it.
You can take voice 
notes and save them on your
phone or send them to cloud services.
You have at your fingertips custom punctuation,
word replacement, capitalization, undo commands,
and other useful tools.
This app uses Google speech recognition so Google app must be installed.
This is a simple speech to text app with the first page being your speech to
text transcriber and when you click on the menu icon you are brought to
the screen you see here:
Gboard
- 4.3 Stars
- 2 Million Downloads
- 1B Downloads
- Everyone Rated
- Mountain View California
First, you need to go through all the menu choices and set up the app with
all of your preferences.
This
app will replace the default keyboard with a
keyboard using your options of language and with
any of the themes that are available in the Themes
tab.
So anywhere you would type in any text
you would have the option for speech
to text by clicking on the microphone icon
in the upper right in your keyboard or Gboard.
The keyboard options that are available to you in the settings’ tab are
Qwerty, Handwriting, Qwertz, Azerty, Dvorak, Colemak, and PC.
To the right is a screenshot of the settings’ menu where you pick your
preferences in each submenu.
SpeechNotes
- 4.3 Stars
- 13K Reviews
- 1M Downloads
- Everyone Rated
- Israel
Speech notes Settings page was pretty much like the rest of the other apps
with the exception that this app also has a desktop version.
They also have a google extension that you can download and it has one
feature that was pretty cool and it was that you can have your text read
to you.
So say you were typing a blog and wanted to know how it sounds you could
have it read back to you.
Not sure if the voice was a digital one or not, but the web page says it is a
natural sounding voice.
I clicked on the link that said TRY IT FOR FREE but was taken to a 9.95 check
out.
Go figure.
Take Away
So there you have it.
I am still fooling around with them but am leaning a bit towards the
Gboard as the best speech to text app for my android.
The convenience factor in that no matter what you are doing when it comes
to text you would have that speech to text option already there without
having to manage an app first.
I believe speech response may have been a bit better as well, although I
have noticed that the speech to text recognition can change from one
minute to the next in about all the apps.
I am sure it is probably a matter of our voice not being constant all of the
time.
One more thing, I found a really handy screenshot app for your android
that when downloaded and turned on, will put a small button on every
page that you are on and if you want a screenshot just click the tiny floating
button.
It will move around if it gets in your way of doing anything.
You also have the ability to record Utube videos on any website and save
them for uploading.
If that wasn’t enough there is also a browser inside the app where you can
screenshot any web page or google results right inside the app then upload
to wherever you want.
The screenshots are stored in the app where you have a bunch of choices as
to where you want to upload them to…very handy.
The name of the screenshot app is Screenshot Touch. You want to have the
right tools in the right place to better achieve your online and offline
chores.
I am always looking for new and better ways to accomplish online tasks and
striving to make things easier to run my online business.
If you have found a tool or service that you just can’t do without then share
it here and I will give it a go!
Try out any of the speech to text applications and please leave me any
comments about any of the services that you have tried whether it is one of
the ones that I have reviewed or not.
Love to hear from you.
All The Best
Paul Price