There’s a new app out for iPhones that actually let’s you speak to it and it’ll dictate what you say and translate it into text. It works by you speaking into your iPhone with the app open, then the app sends your audio recording out, servers somewhere in the cloud render what you’ve said, and then send it back to you as text. Of course, all text has to be copied from the Dragon app and into the app your using.

I was planning on using it to type (speak) this post fully, but it just doesn’t cut it. For one, I’m an extremely fast typer. It’s slower or me to “speak slowly” into my iPhone than it is to type. That wouldn’t be a problem though, I’d have more fun speaking into my iPhone than typing.

The problem is that there is a time limit (or error) on how long you can speak, like 20 to 30 seconds. It doesn’t tell you your out of time, it just stops recording any more audio. What’s worst, is that it gives a “timed out” error if you go past 20 to 30 seconds. If that weren’t bad enough, there’s no way to send the audio again that you just spoke.

Get the problem here? You have no way of knowing if your going to go over the “invisible” time limit. This causes an error, which makes you lose any speaking you just did. You pretty much have to keep speaking one sentence recordings, stop, let it render and start again. And you also have to check for errors. I don’t know if the app is designed to do this, or if it’s a bug.

Does this mean the app sucks? ‘Freak no! The app’s free and I think the process of throwing the rendering process off the device and into the cloud is a brilliant idea. In fact, although this app doesn’t cut it for me, I love it. I’m keeping this app on the Neocell and, after each update, I’m gonna’ open the app up to see if any of the issues have been fixed. Remember, after all, that this is the very first version of it.

Peace, JbB