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Ask HN: When do you type instead of dictate?

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Obviously coding, but when else is typing better than dictating? What issues do you encounter?

What are your best tips for using speech input for working with project/task management tools? (Mobile vs Desktop; do you add lists of tasks or just one task at a time; can you tag/categorize/add priority/direct tasks to the proper areas, etc via speech).

What are you preferred speech recognition/dictation/speech-to-text tools? (MS Word Mobile added dictation in April—helpful to anyone?)

My personal requirements are: • Input via "wake" command—no tapping/typing. • No "repeat that back to me". • Ability to speak lists of items and tag/categorize/prioritize direct individual tasks on the list to different areas in ClickUp or Asana. ... of course high recognition accuracy

Always. And it'll stay that way until there is some solution, paid or free, that can understand speech (without having to talk slower than usual) and act on it faster than I can type it. But currently I haven't found anything that can actually do that, so dictation is hopelessly left behind until the future comes.

How fast do you type, adjusted for errors? You mentioned speed, but I find Dragon can handle pretty fast talking as well as slower, so I try to remember to talk faster when dictating.

As a kid, I thought it was so cool when I'd see a manager in a TV show or movie dictating to-do lists.

I have tried setting up different emails or numbers to text to that create different types of tasks, using Google Assistant with Clickup integration, copy/pasting to Google Sheets from Google Docs with formulas in Sheets to extract priority/tag and then Zapier to bring items from Sheets over to Asana, but I can't quite seem to get the tech right to make the "manager dictates" scenario easy enough. I always seem to need a VA to fill in where automation is tricky.

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