Hey everyone, this is my first blog type of post using speech-to-text and I have to say I'm pretty excited about it.
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Writing / typing has been a really big part of my life and I even bought the Dragon Naturally Speaking software a number of months ago but the CD didn't work and I never got it working, so today when I was looking around for ways to make more money I saw a video on YouTube where a guy mentioned that Google Docs has a free method of doing this, And I have to say it works really well.
In fact it's only messed up one or two words so far and I can even listen to music while it's going and it's still works almost 100% perfectly. This is pretty major for me because I end up typing so much doing my IFC contest when responding to people and just when posting really long blog articles in general and arguing with a lot of people online that eventually it caused repetitive stress and for a while there during the first IFC season last year I got to the point where it hurt to even hold my right arm up I used it so much, or overused it rather..
These days my arm doesn't bother me that much as I stopped using it so much in such ways and started lifting weights more and stretching and such.. But still from time to time when I use it too much it starts to hurt a little bit so now with this I should be able to almost completely bypass needing to type anymore at least for most of the longer stuff that I do. Oh, that's funny it just typed four instead of for.. It's definitely not perfect and will need a little bit of editing but that's still way better than how I used to do things.
Kind of feels a little weird talking instead of typing like I have for so many years since I've done it that way so long and now I find it's a little bit awkward in some ways, but I'm sure in time I'll get used to it.
Another thing I wanted to mention was that I found a site called Textbroker which pays people for typing up articles or blog posts or whatever and you can use this speech to text stuff and that works as well, I haven't signed up yet but hopefully I get accepted and that's a way for me to earn some extra income, you may want to check it out also if that's something you're interested in.
Some people are making a living doing this and claim to be making $20-30 an hour or more, some aren't making much at like $3-5 an hour depending upon how skilled they are at it and what star they are ranked.. I'm curious to try it out and see how I do.
I feel like I should be able to get at least a 4 star rating, maybe not a 5 star, I dunno.. But I do feel like I could possibly get a 5 since I am pretty good at writing/typing and online researching and having been working on these skills for a long time.
So many people over the years have told me that I should be writing articles and getting paid to do it so now I'm going to explore that and see if it works out, hopefully I can make at least a little bit of extra money doing this :-)
If Textbroker doesn't work there's also Fiver and other sites and I will try those as well. Heh, that's funny the speech-to-text just typed fiber instead of Fiver. So.. I guess it does have some trouble with certain words that sound very similar yet it's not very difficult to edit and change that compared to how much I used to type!
Anyways I think that's it for now, I hope someone out there learned something useful or benefited from this blog post and maybe you might want to check out and try out Google Docs speech-to-text or Textbroker as well. :D Peace.
PS.. Dang that was freaking awesome and so much easier than what I'm used to for that amount of text. ._.