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Recent hack that saved my time.
Ever since we started using computers, we have been taught to type everything on keyboards. And as a result, this is how we interact with the machines. So whether you write papers, you write responses to emails, you write LinkedIn posts, anything, essentially, you're just typing.
Recently, I was introduced to VoiceInk, an application that lets you dictate what you want to say and transcribes it into text. I know I've been trying to use Google Docs for this. I've been trying to use MS Word for this and then including some of the transcription services available on Mac. But I always found that it was fairly inaccurate. I couldn't really rely on it because the grammar was off, and it missed words because of my non-native accent.
But now we see that AI tools actually make it much more profound. So you can essentially leverage AI to understand how you speak and convert your speaking to text with very high accuracy. So the tool that I'm using, as I mentioned, Voice Inc, it uses some of its own AI tools, but you can also hook it up to OpenAI or any other tools that you have available. You can use open source tools like Ollama. To get that AI enhancement.
And it has already saved me quite a lot of time. So I started using that two weeks ago. Right now, it has saved me about 40 minutes to 60 minutes of my time. It's a little bit weird for me to speak to the PC rather than type. So I'm still learning. But I thought I would share this with you.
I know we are all kind of struggling with time, and essentially, you speak faster than you write. So that could actually help you with writing papers because you can just start talking about your paper, talking about your results, talking about your discussion, and then just fix the grammar, fix the writing and everything else.
So that's one of the main reasons why we have a writer's blog, because I posted on LinkedIn today. We do want to make sure our writing is perfect. And as a result, we write and then we edit, we write and then we edit. And as a result, we waste time.
I recommend we write first. So just do free writing and don't correct, don't edit, because that way it is faster. When you write and then edit, it's much faster. From my experience with this kind of tool right now, especially with voicing, it helps me go over my writer's blog because you can always talk.
You can always start talking about something. And as a result, it gives me much better results and saves me a lot of time. So if you want to, it's not a free tool, though. It has a lifetime license, unlike other tools.
So you just pay once and use it all the time. I will drop an affiliate link below.
You can try it for a week for free, without sharing your payment information, to see whether it works for you.
P.S. Let me know in the comments whether you like this kind of content about the tools I'm using and whether you like me sharing what I use to make my workflow better.
P.P.S. I have dictated this using VoiceInk - pretty accurate isn't it?
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Recent hack that saved my time.
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