After reading David Pogue's glowing recommendation of Dragon Dication, I decided I needed to download it. I installed it on my phone and started playing immediately. I was confused at first, it did not seem very accurate. For example, I dictated a message to my wife, "Hey, if you remember to stop at the Y and pay the bill, I can pick up some groceries on the way home." What I got was, "Hey I do remember to stop at the Y. and pay the bill I might come get some groceries on the way home."
Hmmm she would get the point of the message, but likely question whether I really did go to college. After playing some more I began to realize the problem...I had not thought about what I wanted the message to say. If I was going to call my wife and give her the message, or send her an e-mail, text or even voice mail I could compose the message on the fly. Yet, if I wanted to dictate the message, and have it converted to text, I had to THINK in advance of what I wanted to say.
I don't think composing an e-mail or text message on the fly is a bad thing. Composing at the keyboard is fine, because you have time to re-read and/or edit before sending. I think it is how most people in the thirty something generation tend to work. However, with Dragon Dictation, that just does not work. If you need to go through your message to fix all the errors, it may be easier to just type in. I think I will be using the application for short, well thought out text messages, e-mail and twitter updates, but nothing more than a couple of sentences.
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