Something along those lines might work if the recording would be played while a Mac running mavericks with offline dictation listens.
Have not tried this feature yet. Just an other thought Best, Ioana Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 9, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Sandratomkins <sandratomk...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Sieghard and Anna, > I am aware of this time cut-off. Which is why I was suggesting that a > specific app would be necessary. For example, an app that recorded, let's > say, an hour of speech. Then, in 32nd chunks, would digitise that speech into > text. Often, when I'm composing a long email message or something in notes, > I may be dictating for an hour at least! Obviously, I break off and let the > dictation function digitise what I have spoken. So, if this can be done in an > automated fashion within a large section of recording, I see no reason why > it shouldn't work! > > Taking the idea little further: perhaps, using drop vox, lectures/meetings > could be uploaded and not processed until required. In this way not too much > space will be taken up on the phone. I don't know much about these things, > but, perhaps, it would be possible for this special app (which doesn't exist > yet) to stream only in 32nd pieces > > Are you following my drift at all? > Still musing, > Sandy > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 9 Feb 2014, at 16:06, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> Hi Sandra, >> >> Keep in mind that currently SIRI/Dictation is limited to 30 seconds at a >> time. Unless you have a very short lecture this probably would not work so >> well. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf >> Of Beth G >> Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 5:16 AM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: The potential of the dictation function? >> >> 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 >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> 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. 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