there is an app called SmartRecord her, but has a transcription service 
attached to it. I have not played with it much, but it looks promising for what 
you're talking about

Beth

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> On Feb 9, 2014, at 5:32 AM, Sandratomkins <sandratomk...@googlemail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi there!
> I was just playing around with my phone and I opened the notes app. Then, in 
> a new note, I started off the dictation function. I then walked into the 
> kitchen, where my partner was eating lunch, the radio was playing, and there 
> was some ambient noise. I told him I wanted to carry out a small experiment 
> with dictation and asked him to talk to me. We then had a short conversation. 
> I stopped the dictation function and waited to see how much of the 
> conversation my phone had picked up. It actually did very well, probably, 
> digitising about 30/40% of our conversation. Something I noticed was that 
> when my partner spoke the dictation made a new paragraph For him.
> 
> So, what do I conclude? I am thinking that the phone has the potential, under 
> the right circumstances, to, say, digitise a whole lecture. I think, it would 
> need to actually record the lecture first and then take its time over the 
> digitising from spoken to text. But I am sure it could actually do it as 
> things stand right now. That is, I think it can do it but it with me to have 
> its own space for the processing.
> 
> Has anyone else played with this function? Perhaps, there is already an app 
> to do it? I would be very interested to hear people's comments on this as, I 
> think, it may have greater potential, I E, in transcribing radio programs for 
> people who  at the   moment can't access them due to hearing loss. Or  for 
> students, journalists, and who knows what else?
> 
> My thanks for any responses,
> Sandy
> 
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