The Remote Dictate app allows you to speak into your iPhone 4S and the text appears on your computer screen. This is a great way to get your thoughts out of your head and onto the screen in a hurry.
Some of the commands don’t work, but that’s a small price to pay for this app that is free right now. If you say “new paragraph” the app will freeze and not generate any more text. Same thing if you say “new line.” These are normal commands in the Siri/Dragon Dictation lexicon.
However, you can speak things like “open parenthesis” a secret comment “close parenthesis” to get (a secret comment). Speak “open quote” a secret comment “close quote” and you get “a secret comment” which is normal behavior for Siri/Dragon Dictation.
You can even use the keyboard to type text on your computer screen or use the Return button to generate a new paragraph.
This app requires the Mobile Mouse Server software, which I downloaded from the Mac App Store.
To get up and running all you have to do is launch the Mobile Mouse Server software, open the Remote Dictate app on your iPhone 4S, then open a program that you can enter text into like TextEdit, Notepad, Pages, or Word.
Then press the microphone button and start dictating. There is a limitation of about 40 seconds that Siri will time out if you haven’t pressed the Done button.
When you’re finished press Done and words will jump out at you on the computer screen.
It’s pretty awesome!
Just in case you missed it, this app only works with the iPhone 4S. And the Mobile Mouse software does work with Windows or Mac.
Even with the limitations of having to speak clearly to get the right words, this app is much faster than typing. My kind of App!
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