FWD: A hackish way to do dictation in Linux, or any popular OS for that matter

[B. Henry]

Meant to send this to both groups at once, just keep reading please.

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Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 17:07:23 -0500
Subject: A hackish way to do dictation in Linux, or any popular OS for that matter

Just a quick post to say I was not really aware that you could type by voice, or do speech to text in other words using google's chrome browser and
google docs/drive.
I am still not very good with the google docs commands, and can't find things in menus with out a combination of searching and shortcuts or I'd not
have bothered with what I just tried a few minutes ago.
Open a document in google drive or docs, look for voice type, or is it type by voice. Then just press the start dictation button. Actually I think you
have to enable voice typing once first. Then you just move the arrows and the dictation is turned off, or focus on the end dictation button and press
it. There is a keyboard shortcut to start dictation as well, maybe control s, but will have to check.
Anyway, rather than saving and downloading the doc I just s elect what I just wrote via dictation and copy it in to a text file.
Normal cut copy and paste keystrokes work, control x c and v, and selectionworkds just like it normally does in a GUI press shit and use arrows, home
end and page up and down basically.
This is interesting enough to get me trying g-docs till I get commands and keybindings memorized.
There are good help articles that of course come up in google searches.
One bad news, at least on my arch gui, the --enable-speech-dispatcher commandline flag is causing things to run very poorly, very bd lag times,
will check cpu use later, and chroevox goes silent after a bit of use most of the time, i.e. I'm putting up with the google voices low volume and
occasionally hard for me to understand pronunciation.
Maybe this will work better on vinux, will try there after work.
According to the articles I saw the voice typing is available on Windows, Mac, i stuff and android, not to mention chromeOS of course.
I've only tried on Linux so far.

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