I’m extremely visual too. Learning to dictate effectively was a weird experience and was significantly slower at first than typing (80 WPM). A five minute dictation could take half an hour the first few times. It took a few dozens of dictations before I got the gist of it. I bet it was still easier to learn than stenotyping.
These days I roughly visualize the text in my head while I’m dictating. Corrections can’t be as easily made on the fly because the text is produced afterwards by a human and not in real time by a computer. If you’re using a dictation program, you can quickly edit the text on the fly and combine typing and dictation, so the problems you’re imagining might be more surpassable than you think.
Of course, there are other downsides to dictation like nonprivacy and straining your voice, but being able to move freely is a nice upside. Would you like to be able to express yourself better verbally? You could see this as a chance to learn.
I’m extremely visual too. Learning to dictate effectively was a weird experience and was significantly slower at first than typing (80 WPM). A five minute dictation could take half an hour the first few times. It took a few dozens of dictations before I got the gist of it. I bet it was still easier to learn than stenotyping.
These days I roughly visualize the text in my head while I’m dictating. Corrections can’t be as easily made on the fly because the text is produced afterwards by a human and not in real time by a computer. If you’re using a dictation program, you can quickly edit the text on the fly and combine typing and dictation, so the problems you’re imagining might be more surpassable than you think.
Of course, there are other downsides to dictation like nonprivacy and straining your voice, but being able to move freely is a nice upside. Would you like to be able to express yourself better verbally? You could see this as a chance to learn.