Dragon Dictation

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Dragon Dictation

Dragon Dictation for the iPhone is spectacular. It works so well it constantly amazes me. Even when I dictated my wife's name - Jenn - it suggested "Jenn" as a possible alternative for "Jen." It frequently gets what I say right the first time, and often catches the wrong words in the tap-to-correct mode when it makes a mistake.
So I decided to sing into it and give it a run for its money. I was singing Trey Anastasio's "Host Across the Potomac," whose chorus is "The time has come for desks and chairs to be elevated." I sang the line several times, annunciating a bit more with each line, and here are the results:

  • The time has come for desk send JS to be a little David

  • The time has come by best chance to be added day babe

  • The time has come for dad send chance to be added day again

  • The time has come for desk and chairs to be inundated


Gotta love it; four times sung, four totally different results.
The moral of the story is: Dragon is great for dictation, but not so much for transcribing singing.
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