Kenatsun 1 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Dear EverNote Community ~I'm a brand-new EverNote user, with a brand-new Google Nexus 7. Speech to text is not working for me. I'm apparently failing to connect some basic dots. Here';s what I have tried:CASE 1:I start a new note. I click the microphone button. The square-in-circle icon appears in the bar below the text pane. I talk. I hit the square-in-circle icon. A new speaker icon appears above the text pane. I click on the speaker icon. A panel pops up offering me "View" and "Remove" options. I click "View". The audio plays back. But NO TEXT TRANSLATION APPEARS. And I can't find any way to make it appear.CASE 2:In that same note, I click the microphone-in-comic-book-speech-cloud icon (just left of the microphone icon). The square-in-circle icon appears in the bar below the text pane. I talk. I hit the square-in-circle icon. No new speaker icon appears. Apparently this has not been recorded at all.So somebody please explain: How to get the recoreded speech translated into text??~ Thanks in advance for your help~ Ken Link to comment
BurgersNFries 2,407 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 AFAIK, EN does not do speech to text translation. Link to comment
Kenatsun 1 Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 In my Nexus tablet, if I tap the light-bulb icon, a panel labeled "Explore Evernote" pops up. One of the options there is "Speech to Text", with a subtitle that says "Sometimes it's easier to speak your idea than tap it out." If i tap on that item, I get something that adds "With Speech to Text, Evernote turns your spoken words into easy to find text." That leads me to expect speech-to-text translation. So I tap on that, and say some stuff, and...AHA! It turns what I said into text!!As a listener, it's pretty fragile. If I type anything, or apparently even if I just speak too long a sentence or wait too long between utterances or move the cursor, it stops listening. And unfortunately, the little box that implies it's listening stays visible and even keeps flashing when I speak. So I have to push the microphone-in-comic-book-speech-cloud icon again to recapture its attention. And of course there are many errors in the translation, but the text probably will be editable into what I wanted to say.So: Speech-to-text does work! But it will take some learning (on my part) to get it to work reliably. Link to comment
BurgersNFries 2,407 Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hmmm... Yeah, I guess on some platforms it does...http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/evernote-android-app-now-supports-speech-to-text-28-03-2012/Neat! Link to comment
Level 5* gazumped 10,424 Posted September 23, 2012 Level 5* Share Posted September 23, 2012 I've been a happy Android-er (Androidian?) for over a year now, and only just picked up on this option. The "microphone-in-comic-book-speech-cloud" icon is available in the Evernote Widget and the edit toolbar, but is singularly uninspiring when you use it. Hit the icon.. talk.. wait for a while.. watch three little dots on screen while the process is running.. and.. get a (surprisingly good) approximation of what you just said on screen. Patience is the main requirement though - the lack of immediate visible activity led me to scrap any number of notes before I actually saw my words in print. No doubt it will get better, but given the need to correct the text for many technical and foreign phrases I find it's useful for very short and temporary notes only. Link to comment
GaryLKing 46 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Gaz, Also my experience. It works, technically, but I don't use it. It also saves a copy os the audio file. I don't want both.Regards,Gary Link to comment
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