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I sometimes get a bit behind with adding stuff to this site. I'll be busy with something else, then I'll be on my way somewhere and suddenly (as with yesterday) I'll find that I haven't entered anything for four or five days.
One solution is to write an article while I'm having lunch. I usually take two hours or so for lunch, and could easily type something up on my phone and then just cut and paste it across later. But, despite the full keyboard, typing on a phone is not very pleasant and I'd rather not do it.
I have the same problem with my to-do list. In fact, I'd rather write stuff down on paper. But then I have to type them in again, which means doing twice the work, so I'm always trying to think of other ways to keep myself organised. A few years back I tried to get into the habit of making voice notes for myself, which you can do while driving, but that didn't work either. I hate listening to my own voice, and again I had the problem of having to retype everything.
Then I saw this great little article at the BBC. I've often wished there was some way to convert voice notes directly to an entry in my diary or blog, and here's a system that could potentially do just that. The article described it as a program that converts voice mail messages to text and SMS's them to you, and I thought that if you can do that then you can take any spoken input and turn it into text anywhere. And if computers today can read text and act on it (eg when parsing html) then they can also do different things according to what you said.
So if you prefix your message with "Cogitation, for immediate publication" then the output would go to this site. Or maybe it would need to go to your "pending" tray until you have checked and edited it. Or added to your to-do list, diary or . And so on.
I guess you wouldn't need to even make a call to do it either. You could record the note, and your phone would send it via wireless web, or synch to your computer and send it down the fixed internet connection. You could probably even specify which quite easily.
Sadly, I checked the company's website - http://www.spinvox.com/ voice recognition - and they've already thought of most of these applications. So I'm not very original today, but at least I got something added to the site!
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