This quick-tip introduces a new speech-recognition tool, which is free, and doesn't need any special software apart from Google Chrome.
Ever wanted to write (at least the first draft) of a blog-post by just talking to your computer - but didn't have fancy speech recognition software to do it with?
There's now a super-simple tool available which lets you do this:
Ever wanted to write (at least the first draft) of a blog-post by just talking to your computer - but didn't have fancy speech recognition software to do it with?
There's now a super-simple tool available which lets you do this:
- Start Google Chrome (if you aren't already using it)
- Go to https://dictation.io/speech and click Start or the microphone icon.
- [The first time you use it:Â ]Â Â Give permission (Allow) for it to use your microphone
- Start talking
- Just say what you want in your post.  Don't worry about mistakes, you can edit them out later.  If you mess up a bit, just "new line" and start again - delete the wrong paragraph.
- When you've finished, copy the output and paste it into the Blogger post-editor.  Make it pretty, and edit out any mistakes.
Job done!  Post written, keystrokes saved.
