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Posted by jimspoon
Jan 6, 2015 at 06:27 PM
Bill, Evernote for Android used to preserve both the audio recording and the recognized text, but it seems this is no longer the case. I have just made a speech-to-text note in Evernote in Galaxy Note 3, and it does not contain an audio attachment, or at least I can’t find how to access it ... no audio attachment shows up on the web client or the desktop client when I sync the notes from the android app.
Even when the audio recording (for speech to text notes) was preserved and was accessible - it would often contain gaps, and whole portions of the speech that was dictated would be missing. Sometimes when dictating an Evernote speech-to-text note, the spoken words simply don’t show up.
It seems I’d be better off just using the speech recognition in the Google or Swype keyboards, rather than the speech-to-text button in the evernote app.
Apart from the speech to text function in Evernote for Android - one can make an “audio note” and it is preserved as an .AMR file attachment. And the attachment is synced to the desktop client. But I can’t find any way in the app to convert this .AMR audio clip to text.
Bummer!
Posted by jimspoon
Jan 6, 2015 at 06:37 PM
Bill, here’s another link for the dictation commands available for OS X - supposedly the same commands are available in iOS.
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203084
Some of these I hadn’t thought about - i should try on my Android device (Google / Swype).
I will be interested to hear whether the iOS preserves the audio when you use the dictation function.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 6, 2015 at 07:17 PM
Shame about Evernote, kind of underlines the rather vacillating roadmap that appears to be undermining what was once a confident, forward-looking team.
And thanks for the iOS commands: I must try the dictation function out and see how well it works. Reviews suggest it’s pretty good!
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 6, 2015 at 07:25 PM
I’ve just dictated some stuff into Byword on my iPad, and it works fairly well. It needs a good connection to Apple’s servers, and has a peculiar way of dropping the connection quite suddenly. But it’s impressively accurate!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 6, 2015 at 07:27 PM
However, there’s no obvious way to save the audio file, let alone synchronise it with the text output.
Various apps will keep track of audio alongside e.g. hand-typed/written notes (OneNote, Notebooks, Notability, Pear Notes etc.), but I don’t know of anything that will store audio alongside the text output from that audio.
Well, just have to keep looking!