A couple of questions/suggestions from my absolute ignorance, as I have never used dictation:
I’m a pretty slow reader and I really get frustrated and distracted with not-correctly written text, so I see the subsequent editing of the text as something really threatening and time-consuming for me. Is there any way to bold-font parts of what you dictate while you are dictating (it in case you happen to think that it is more useful/better than what you previously said)? Or would you find it useful to every now and then dictate a summary of what you just said to have a piece of (a bit) curated text to start with? Or a would you find it useful to have some kind of code-word to say right after you said an idea that you found particularly insightful?
And more practically (I will also do my research and tests, of course): I’m not native, do you know if dictation can work well as well? And do you happen to know if there are dictation apps that work in languages other than English?
I’m a pretty slow reader and I really get frustrated and distracted with not-correctly written text, so I see the subsequent editing of the text as something really threatening and time-consuming for me.
I’ve become a fast reader in recent years, but like you, I also get disturbed by incorrectly written text.
To me it sounds like you will get used to these issues in time. You know it’s (1) your own words, (2) dictated by an imperfect program, and (3) mostly meant to be deleted. 1 would help me read faster, and 2 and 3 would help me tolerate the “writing flaws”.
Reading fast is fundamentally about skipping, and being okay with skipping. I think that should be easy if you remember saying the sentence that the words on screen refer to. If you remember the sentence, you’re reminded of the general concept you were getting at. Your job is after all only to figure out whether this whole sentence or section is worth keeping, and you only need to read the first few words to know that, probably.
You could also do a second dictation, to summarize what you’re reading. That one’ll be much shorter.
I like this a lot!
A couple of questions/suggestions from my absolute ignorance, as I have never used dictation:
I’m a pretty slow reader and I really get frustrated and distracted with not-correctly written text, so I see the subsequent editing of the text as something really threatening and time-consuming for me. Is there any way to bold-font parts of what you dictate while you are dictating (it in case you happen to think that it is more useful/better than what you previously said)? Or would you find it useful to every now and then dictate a summary of what you just said to have a piece of (a bit) curated text to start with? Or a would you find it useful to have some kind of code-word to say right after you said an idea that you found particularly insightful?
And more practically (I will also do my research and tests, of course): I’m not native, do you know if dictation can work well as well? And do you happen to know if there are dictation apps that work in languages other than English?
I’ve become a fast reader in recent years, but like you, I also get disturbed by incorrectly written text.
To me it sounds like you will get used to these issues in time. You know it’s (1) your own words, (2) dictated by an imperfect program, and (3) mostly meant to be deleted. 1 would help me read faster, and 2 and 3 would help me tolerate the “writing flaws”.
Reading fast is fundamentally about skipping, and being okay with skipping. I think that should be easy if you remember saying the sentence that the words on screen refer to. If you remember the sentence, you’re reminded of the general concept you were getting at. Your job is after all only to figure out whether this whole sentence or section is worth keeping, and you only need to read the first few words to know that, probably.
You could also do a second dictation, to summarize what you’re reading. That one’ll be much shorter.
Thank you very much :-)