Hey, I'm Dictating!

BEGIN DICTATIONHi, everyone! It's your bird dash girl, Chris with some weird information for you. I was thinking that I wanted to start dictating some of the emails and narratives that I needed to write comma and I realized that Microsoft Office has a dictation software already built into its application. I thought, start quote this is going to be great! end quote . But it's not turning out How I want Ellipsis yet . press return tap return this is stupid.END DICTATIONDictation brings me back to the beginning days of Siri. (Actually, it brings me back to when I was a kid growing up in the 80s, and my dad would dictate into a microphone to record patient records, and then a real person had to listen to it to type everything out!) I wanted to upgrade my iPhone so that I could ask Siri to do things in case I was driving or had my hands full. I’d love to hear if you’ve had major success stories with Siri, because I have not. She has rarely ever met my expectation. For example, if I wanted to ask her where the nearest grocery store was, she never quite met the task.I think with anything, I’ll need some more practice. To try to get around dictating punctuation, I found this Microsoft article. It’s a bit helpful. I have to say New Line to hit return, and Open/Close Quote to use a quotation. As you can see, I tried “…” but Ellipsis was not a key phrase.It’s been quite a learning curve, but I think I may be able to manage. I can get better. If I become a Pro, I’ll write my next blog quote using dictation only! I inspire you to try the same.Good luck, all you fellow lazy typers!