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Dicatation in Insert window - Chrome complication?

Open sqril opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

I just realized that there was a Writemonkey 3 and installed it today.

Yesterday, I had gotten speech recognition set up on my computer and it worked a treat with WM2.7(?).

But now with WM3 when I use speech recognition (Windows Speech Recognition in Windows 7 - not Dragon :( ) my text pops up in a little window in the upper right and I have to "Insert" it to get it into the document and then can only add to the text that has been inserted, cannot edit it.

Am I missing something? I saw that someone using Dragon seems to be fairly successful in using dictation.

Now that I'm trying to use speech recognition to enter this into Github comment on a Chrome browser I see that it might be a browser issue and I believe the new WM is written in some sort of chrome browser format. Correct?

I wonder if this is a Chrome setting that I can change?

I really want this to work - any suggestions?

sqril avatar Jan 16 '20 21:01 sqril

Yes, wm is based on chromium. Dictation works well on OSX (OS built in solution), not sure for Windows though (haven't tested that yet). i.

writemonkey avatar Jan 18 '20 20:01 writemonkey

So I've tested a bunch of speech-to-text options out and I've come to the conclusion that is still fairly rough, especially in cross-platform stuff. The only thing that seems to work at the moment is if I use the default Microsoft speech-to-text service, allow the text to come up in a bubble, hit enter, and then go back and edit via typing.

I'm using the Voicein extension in my Chrome browser to enter this and then I edit manually and it works. But then I tested it in the WorkFlowy Chrome app and it doesn't seem to work. There is no place to activate it.

I believe that Writemonkey is a Chromium-based program, not a Chrome app. Is that correct?

My goal with this is to use Writemonkey for a personal journal, not particularly for writing a book or anything and I wanted to use speech-to-text because I have found that it's easier for me to think my thoughts and then go back and edit them. I have a hard time getting things out of my mind in an organized fashion.

It would be really great to have a seamless speech to text functionality via an extension or program in Writemonkey. For those of us who aren't using OSX :)

sqril avatar Jan 23 '20 17:01 sqril

And I dug around but am not a programmer - I think this is describing something similar...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50125821/standard-way-to-build-a-chrome-extension-into-chromium/50305105

Over and out - I'm just gonna go type :)

sqril avatar Jan 23 '20 17:01 sqril