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Wouldn’t it be great to just tell your blog what to post? The heck with all this writing stuff! That’s just a one way express ticket to carpal tunnel city. What I want to do is dictate blog posts, and have them turned into text automatically. Maybe not all my blog posts, but some of them for sure.
This should be easy. I have an iPhone, right?
As soon as it’s done with the dishes, I’ll put it on writing blog posts.
Ok, so it’s not quite that easy. Yes, it has built-in sound recording, but that’s not quite the same as built-in dictation. You still have to purchase software specifically written for dictation.
Fortunately, Ricky Buchanan already has everything I need to know about speech-to-text dictation for all things Mac. 21 articles so far, and growing I’m sure. Ricky is your one stop shop for everything you need to know about speech to text on a Mac, from hardware to software, to how to use it all.
For example, I’ve been looking at the Windows Dragon NaturallySpeaking product, as it seems to be a well-regarded at a decent price. But I’d like to use my Macbook. Ricky reports that Nuance (makers of Dragon) recently purchased MacSpeech, a major player for the Mac platform. This is probably good news for everyone, customers, users, and MacSpeech employees.
Here’s some questions for you:
- Are you using any dictation products?
- If so, which product on which platform? And how is it working out?
- If not, why not?
I’m really interested in your experience and thoughts. Speech-to-text may not seem that important right now, but suspect that, all of a sudden, we’re going to find it everywhere. Not a train I want to miss.
New direction
I just looked through my statistics over the last couple of days: around 600 hits… and none for Week in Review articles.
Week in Review gets ZERO traffic.
So this is the last one.
Which is too damn bad, really, because these Week in Review articles are some of the most enjoyable articles for me to write. However, writing Week in Review articles is really time consuming. I’m not Jimmy Thudpucker, I can’t cut these turkeys by mail.
I will continue linking to interesting people, and I will continue current story lines. I’ll open new story lines as well, just differently.
I’ll be watching the blog stats over time as well. If for whatever reason the Week in Review series starts to get traction, I’ll start writing them again.
However…
As you will notice below…
I’m still listing out the week’s articles, their SEO Descriptions, and linking back to previous Week’s in Reviews.
So what’s changed?
What’s changed is the focus, it’s going to be tighter with fewer but better outbound links. I won’t be titling these articles “Week in Review” and won’t be doing any direct promotion for the series. I’m continuing this way because the internal linking and SEO Description accountability benefits me in the long term.
The Week in Review March 6, 2010
- Saturday Morning Surfing: How’s Your Blog Traffic Lately? Has your blog traffic plateaued? Here’s a few reasons why that happens, and suggestions getting out of your traffic rut.
- How a 9 Day Denial of Service Attack Affected Blog Traffic. Having your website attacked is no fun. If you get attacked, do what I did and learn from all your traffic statistics. You might be pleasantly surprised.
- How to Read Your SEO Metadata Like Google (really fast). Search engines will display your metadata. Ensure it’s well-written “teaser” copy with relevant keywords. Marshall shows you how to quickly check your result.
- Technical Tuesday: Another Look at WordPress register_activation_hook. register_activation_hook is a perennial stumbling block for WordPress programmers, but it’s not that hard to understand, as shown by examples in this article.
- Consistency – A 7th Characteristic of Trust Building (Everyone can do this). Being consistent is a great way to build trust, and there’s more than one way to practice consistency. Read more then share your blogging consistency.
- No blog post today. Two releases this week. Sometimes, you just don’t feel like writing a blog post. When that happens, do what I do and don’t write one. Read more to see what I didn’t write.
- Last WIAW Week in Review
- Carlos Throws Down, and Closed Means Closed. Yep, the Week in Review. Meet Bindu, Ricky, & Carlos: custard powder changes a relationship, success is a habit, and you really don’t have an excuse. Everyone can succeed.
- Stay tuned…
Next WIAW Week in Review
