Voice to text software isn't always the fastest way to create blog post. You may just save yourself time by typing instead.

Text to speach software usually doesn't pronounce words correctly, and could cost you more time editing, than you may have expected.

I use Dragon Dictate for any extensive typing requirement.

I type about 15 words per minute and am half blind and have to look at the keyboard to type.

One of the best software investments I have ever made. Couldn't work without it.

Cheers.

I am not an English native speaker and it's not a good idea to me.

its bad idea to use it for blog posting.use only keyboard typing.

If you are good orator than it's easier.

Give it a try and see how it works for you.

The secret is to edit carefully. I turn a lot of transcripts into posts for clients. It requires taking out a lot of words like "gonna" and the "okay?" at the end of sentences. Most of us add a lot of gibberish when we talk unless we're giving a speech that we've practiced. You want your post to sound natural but it doesn't need the..."ummm" and "hmmm" we tend to add as we talk.

Also, as others have said, it won't recognize all words correctly so you'll need to be sure your meaning is clear.

Only you can decide if it saves you time in the end.

Rose

I've used Dragon quite a bit in the past when writing for hours a day - and the trick in my view is taking the time to properly 'train' the software rather than quickly make changes yourself.


I have my own 'voice to text' system. I'm a touch typist (don't look at the keyboard)) and tested several times at over 100 wpm. Typing is easy for me and I can dictate an article or post and type it as final draft at the same time.


Unfortunately - there is a side effect. Though I consider it 'dictating' my son says I 'mutter" when I'm writing online.

I have not seen much success Ehlee but have a blind blogging buddy who publishes rocking post, doing voice to text 100% of the time. I reckon practice, patience and the right dicating device works.

Ryan

Any muttering done when I'm not on the computer is attributed to 'talking to the dog'. ...and I'm sticking to that story.

Pre-computer - pre-keyboard - in high school. My Grandmother said "learn a skill that can support you - don't count on anyone else completely". Best advice ever.... I'd played music since age 5 so moving to a typewriter keyboard was not a big deal.

In my school there were no letters on the keys - trust me, you LEARNED.

The music made the typing easier - the typing and music made my hands strong and flexible for dealing - strange how things work out. Nothing I've learned in life has made me as much money as that one year high school course. weird, huh?

What is much better these days than blogs(except if you have organic traffic coming) is youtube videos that ar done vith voice.

Yeah, with Dragon Naturally Speaking. But, you have to train the software a lot and you have to train yourself to say the commas and periods.

In the end, I like it for the words I don't know, but I'm not sure how to write and like Stephen King would say; "Vomit pages" and then, I go and correct and punctuate them.

I hope that helped.

PS: I wrote that with Dragon. And I'm sure it took me twice the time then it would have typing.

Mario

I don't use software but I do send a file to a site like rev.com when I can't be bothered to write the article myself. They do a good job and the audio gets written out usually in less than 24 hours.



Hope that helps

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Well i have used that but i didn't enjoy the writing. The biggest problem with this is that some time it will not clearly understand what we are speaking because of Accent. so i would say it is not the fastest way because chances of omission is greater.

I am better in writing than talking.

As it allows me to organize my thoughts and even delete certain mistakes I made before publishing.

If I speak, I cannot do amendments and have to apologize as the only way to my audience.

Thank you all for your invaluable input! I'll test both methods and let you know. I believe voice to text is faster. Just trying to find a way to be efficient with my time.

It depends a lot on the topic you are writing/talking about, and how long your articles are.
Let me give you an example of my own experience.
I was working for someone who needed 1.5k articles about classical paintings and gambling, but more law-specific. (weird combination, I know).
Just with google docs tool speech to text and grammarly (paid) I did the painting articles in about an hour, ready to deliver.

However, there was no way to use the same technique for the gambling, as the terms are in many ways too specific and individual. It took simply too much time to get them sorted out, so typing was faster.
cheers
DINS

I have tried it before but it wasn't worth the effort for me.

I recommend using a software program called Dragon Naturally Speaking it is the best or one of the best speech to text programs.

I think voice to text typing to create blog posts can work IF you have a rough outline of what you want to see in your blog ahead of time.

The tendency of some people, when they wing it or just talk extemporaneously, is that
- they mumble
- they have a lot of 'filler' words (like, you know, kinda, sorta)
- they have a lot of unnecessary pauses
- their ideas are disorganized
- they go off track
- the posts can be too long or too short.

And if you have a rough outline before you dictate, it's also easier to edit,

I've never been a fan of voice to text.
It's fine for super short messages but I would not recommend it for a blog post, it would take you forever to edit it as voice to text almost always gets a lot of words wrong.

If you want to spend time training the software to learn your voice, it could be a timesaver. I used to do that until I lost my headset when I moved.

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If your first language is English then you use Dragon Naturally Speaking and train it to your voice.

Or you can simply do a YouTube video and embed it in your blog post. This does two things, it reduces the bounce rate on your blog and also helps the video to increase its ranking on YouTube.

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Interesting. I know that Google Translate uses artificial intelligence to try and predict the correct word if there was a doubt of something you said. Probably they have the same AI on Google Docs and within Android but I'm not sure. Where did you try it and how did it work out for you?

Well I have used that but I didn't enjoy the writing. The problem for this is that a while it will not clearly understand what we're talking due to Accent. So I would say it's not the way because opportunities of omission is higher.

I am currently working on writing a book and have become addicted to www.Otter.ai. They have an app for the iPhone that allows me to pace through the office and dictate to my phone. The voice is converted to text pretty much right away and is available shortly thereafter on the website. Making my life a heck of a lot easier. I guess it depends on the size of your blogs but with my typing skills, this has been a godsend!

I used Dragon Naturally Speaking during my undergrad and graduate degrees (tons of writing). I would still need to edit, but the overall process was significantly faster.

tbh them kinda software stuffs never work out too good for Moi.

Blogging can be time-consuming especially for those people who have a lot of jobs to do. Anyway typing can really help you to type faster, but if you prefer to save time I use Dragon Dictate, I do transcribe and this really helps me a lot, it really works amazing. I suggest that if you use this application you still need to double check everything, this will surely help you to save time. You should have a good headset and a good mic as well. You can record everything or just talk while this apps type everything. I hope this one might help you.

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I think all the editing I would have to do afterward would make it take longer than just typing. Maybe it would work out for shorter posts. I'll have to try it.

I've thought of this but never used it (I should).

I've seen some people use something like this and the results require a fair bit of editing. I think it's one of those - you need to try it to see if you get the results you want.

Personally, voice to text only works for making short notes on the go, rather than creating entire blog posts. I'm a far more eloquent writer than I am speaker and I think this has to do with the amount of time we spend learning how to craft written material in our formal education. Think about it. You learn not just the parts of an essay or story and how to put it all together. You learn the little pieces that make it flow, the transitional phrases that carry your reader from the top to the bottom of the page.

I don't know about you, but I was never taught to speak on one topic for this long, or at least not without notes or a PowerPoint to help keep me on track. In my daily conversation, I'm no dummy, but I tend to jump around quite a bit more and use more filler language (like um and ah) which would cause lots of problems for voice to text without considerable editing.

yes i use speechnotes app on my android phone to dictate the text.i must warm you though some days it works perfectly will on other days it simply doesn't work. from experience old fashion typing your articles is the best.

Been there and tried voice to text about 10 times. I have been a freelance writer for more than a decade and I have never found voice to text to be faster. I type between 60 and 70 words per minute, so I am fast, but not super fast like some.

The problem I run into is the editing. When I type, I am far more accurate than any program I have found for voice to text. I also don't use any editing program when I type, only notepad. I hate having my mistakes pointed out during the writing process. That's what editing is for.

While I can write an article faster with voice to text, the editing process is about three or four times longer. When I type, I make fewer mistakes and I don't have to worry about a program deciding I said something I didn't mean to say. Sometimes, the mistakes can even be hard to spot.

This is just my two cents, but I am not a fan of voice to text.

Benjamin Ehinger

That's not work for me at all.

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Hey Ethan, I normally record a audio or complete a video. I then upload the file to Rev. Com. Another way is to open Google docs, add the voice to text app. Play your audio or video right near the speakers. Allow the app to type. Once it types of back and edit the document to flow for a reader. I hope this helps.

I just started to master this method.

I used to use Dragon for a little bit but it took me longer to edit the dang text... lol I type about 90 WPM so it's fast enough for me. =)

I actually type more quickly than speak. But, I do find that when I'm stuck on writing, if I use the voice option on Google Docs on my phone, I'm able to get a bunch of ideas out by speaking them that I may not have necessarily come up with trying to write. It's that whole speaking uses a different part of the brain or something like that :-P It's a great idea in any case.

It isn't good as I expect. It takes time for proofreading. You know, if it's an audio, people can understand, but if you write all what you say, people read and not really understand.

I do find that when I'm stuck on writing, if I use the voice option on Google Docs on my phone, I'm able to get a bunch of ideas out by speaking them that I may not have necessarily come up with trying to write. It's that whole speaking uses a different part of the brain or something like that

I did try but it was so much work editing after that I gave it in. Not worth the trouble

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very intresting

until now I didn't find any voice to text software that works perfectly
always it misses some words however you should add them manually

if I use the voice option on Google Docs on my phone, I'm able to get a bunch of ideas out by speaking them that I may not have necessarily come up with trying to write.

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I believe Writing a blog post manually will always create a much healthy content. As one or other time you would face difficulty is understanding pronunciations of the software voice, then consequently you need to spend more time on proofreading & editing of content.

There are several out there that work well. I've tried these and seemed to work fine.
- https://speechnotes.co/
- Google Docs integrated voice to text

I'm from Kentucky, so as you can imagine, I have to think before I speak or the system doesn't follow.

Good luck!

It is not a good idea to me

I am in a position to find a lot of thoughts out with attempting to compose that I might not have come up When I use the voice option on Google Docs in my telephone.

I had thought about this originally when I started blogging however I found out I was doubling my time by going back through what I thought on thoroughly speaking and reading what it wrote for me. I spent more time correcting it and editing what I wanted to begin with.

I found out it was more effective as a thought jotter/note taker, than trying to have it write everything for me. When I was thinking about a topic, I would quickly do a google voice to text, to keep what I was thinking about. It was then easy to organize my thoughts into topics to write about. Making it so much easier to write. My writing sounded better too as I was way more organized that way.

I actually type more quickly than speak. But, I do find that when I'm stuck on writing, if I use the voice option on Google Docs on my phone, I'm able to get a bunch of ideas out by speaking them that I may not have necessarily come up with trying to write.

I found out it was more effective as a thought jotter/note taker

Obviously voice to text works for some bloggers. Whether you're typing or speaking, it takes time to implement. Just wanted to see what marketers were doing to maximize their time. Thanks for all the input...

I have tried using dictation software but although it is pretty accurate I have become accustomed to thinking with my fingers. That's to say, I type slowly enough that I can get my ideas onto the screen through the keyboard faster when I type. I don't need to spend a huge amount of time on rewriting. When I used dictation I found that I was getting less good copy on the screen on the first go round.

That said, I have been around long enough that, in my younger days, I used a secretary to take dictation of my routine writing but creative stuff, copywriting, I typed myself on my IBM golfball typewriter after making notes on 3x5 cards.

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In my opinion speech to text apps and packages still haven't evolved enough beyond taking notes or giving simple voice commands to Alexa.

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Human Interface is always a better option then machine interface, you can't be so depended on the machine that you can't even write your own blog!

When I was employed as a journalist, I spent a lot of time interviewing people. One of the most painful things I had to do was transcribe long interviews using a keyboard.

My fingers ached after spending an hour pressing play and pause and play and pause... and typing what the interviewees were saying.

I tried using dictation software to transcribe these interviews, but I found the software difficult to use and prone to mistakes.

More recently, I've been using the dictation software Dragon Professional Individual convert speech to text and transcribe first drafts of articles, blog posts, book chapters and more.

I think writing your blog will be more helpful in getting backlinks rather than voice to text writing.

hm..I find this idea quite good, it saves a lot of time. Do you use any specific program or type just via your smarphone?

I would quickly do a google voice to text, to keep what I was thinking about.

I've been using the dictation software Dragon Professional Individual convert speech to text and transcribe first drafts of articles, blog posts, book chapters and more.

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Hi Ethan. The problem with voice to text writing is that words are spoken differently in various areas around the world. This is due to regional accents which creates confusion in the software being used. Artificial intelligence has its limitations and can't possibly understand the differing accents and dialects used. Yes, it's faster than typing but the time it takes to talk and edit the errors is equivalent to the same time it would take to type it without errors.

Voice Recognition is good for light topics. Typing produces better clarity of though on the 1st pass when I type though.

Yes, I am having great success with it. I had previously bought Dragon Naturally Speaking product and that worked great. Now I simply use free services online. Just get use to it and learn the system. It'll only take a day or two to get the hang of it.

It's kind of inconvenient.
Moreover it can miss some words and modify them with voice.
I prefer manual text writing.

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I prefer speaking, it won't take your time too much. Although, when writing you could gather your thoughts before posting it.

I type. However, I really do find that if I am stuck on composing, should I use the voice option on Google Docs in my telephone, I am in a position to find a lot of thoughts out by talking them that I might not have come up with attempting to compose.

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Same here, Beth. Same here.

Hi.....
Did you know that your smartphone has a web browser built into it? Did you know that most modern smartphones have a voice to text feature built into the keyboard? That's right ladies and gentlemen, you can log into your WordPress website and write a new post by using your voice.
Thanks for this post....

Typing your blog may take too long but, it is comparatively better than voice to text writing. Voice to text writing usually doesn't get words correctly and can cost you much more than your expectations.

Tested voice to text typing on Google docs. I'm using this for citations. It's awesome. A lot better than typing and less frustrating. I'm hooked on this...

To each your own.

I have found it easier to write by speaking through a speech to text program. My fingers don't type at the speed my brain moves

You would be better off putting your energy into learning how to write faster. Speech-to-text software can be inaccurate and you have to spend extra time editing it so that it makes sense. Proper outlining and content structure (Point, Evidence, Example) can make the content creation process go a lot faster.

I have found it easier to write by speaking through a speech to text program.

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I prefer typing text, and voice dialing knocks inspiration.

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