02-11-2017, 06:33 PM
The UnDoug wrote:
...in an iOS screen, you an click the little microphone next to the space bar, and you can then start dictating.
I really wish they would make that a physical button. The progress on speech control/text entry is being hampered by the current vendors assuming they should have "always on" listening, "because it's a better experience for the customer."
Maybe so... if you assume it's OK with your customers you sop up as much information as possible about them all the time under the guise of enhancing services to them when really the intent is to maximize cross-sales.
space-time wrote:
I want Safari or Apple News to read out loud to me as I do other tasks around the house.
I would love for a speech-driven browser/news interface. Problem currently is that the speech engine doesn't seem to work in "reader view" so I have to put up with all kinds of garbage being read off the source page (i.e. random hyperlinks and ads and sidebar text) or I have to spend the time and energy selecting just the content from the story I want and specifically going into the menus with questionably accurate press-and-hold touches to get the content I want read to me.
Even with that complaint, this is one area where Apple definitely has a leg up on Android. Speech integration is terrible for dictating/reading content.