Will a voice input methodology that doesn't change every word I speak then force me to use my hands which hurt to manually correct mistakes? I'm using the voice input because my hands hurt. Why is this so hard to implement? This is adaptive Tech and we need it why is it so hard?
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My uncle graciously bought me an iPhone 13 Pro Max and an Apple Watch 7. I use dictation and then to the best of my ability make manual corrections which I have to do every single time. I have a Parkinson’s tremor in both hands and that makes it difficult.
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In the iOS world there are 2 options for dictation. The little microphone icon on the keyboard or voice control. Voice control does not do as good a job as the icon and they use different translation engines. They each have good qualities that I wish were combined.
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Apple has an accessibility helpline that will help you only with items that are in the accessibility section of settings. If you use dictation as a disabled person they are not allowed to help you. They are only allowed to help you with voice control.
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And there are the errors they will not fix. Like in dictation there are many problems with capitalization (popper case). The first word of a sentence will often be in lowercase in sometimes a word in the middle of a sentence will be in proper case.
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I found the problem with lowercase first words is that there is a hidden character after the period of the previous sentence when using dictation. You can delete up to the period, hit delete again and it will not delete period. It deletes the hidden character.
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After deleting the hidden character sentence capitalization works correctly for that sentence. After proving that is what happens they said that it was expected behavior. In iOS dictation and voice control have their pluses and minuses.
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My problem is this. I input by voice. Stupid words come out despite the fact that I slow down and articulate clearly. So when there's a mistake any autocorrect doesn't resolve properly and I have to go in and manually change it. The whole point is to avoid manual input so WTF
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Exactly. My problem is because of the tremor in both hands it’s very hard for me to tap keyboard buttons. If I’m able to tap a button often it ends up being a double or triple tapped. I believe like another person that several versions of iOS back it was a lot better at dictation
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Replying to @tannyo
The dictation on Mac OS is not so bad for me but I got stuck with a 2017 keyboard. Piece of crap does that multiple tap all by itself. I bricked the machine and apple could care less despite paying them for not one but three different Cloud servers only two of which I can access!

Apr 4, 2022 · 11:27 PM UTC