Honestly, dictation frustrates me because of my English accent and pronunciation(English is not my first language). I have to repeat words a lot of times before the right word is dictated. I’m sad because I was excited the first time, thinking how much words I could get down because I speak faster than writing/typing. Anyone got tips for my problem?
That's such a great question - pinning this to the top in the hopes that more people will see it! It does say in this article that the more you use dictation (in iOS, at least) the more it 'learns' your accent and gets more accurate - curious to hear if anyone can verify that! www.imore.com/how-use-dictation-mac
I work sort of adjacent to the industry that produces these apps and unfortunately, this is an issue that doesn’t have a great fix. There is a system of racism within this industry, much like facial recognition, that means that American and English accents are the only ones that the tech is reliably being created to recognize so far. The only tip I’ve seen is, unfortunately, to do your dictation as a voice recording (like a voice memo on your phone or just a recording into something free like Audacity), and then transcribe it yourself or pay for a transcription service. I’m really hoping someone else has another idea for you!
Dragon Dictate is supposed to be the best dictation software on the market but they no longer support Macs so it's PCs only now and it's not cheap either - but what it does do is create a profile for each user and learns your accent the more you use it. I am very softly spoken and I often have a blocked nose due to hayfever so sometimes I have to say a word three times to get it to register. Even then the word they have inserted is the wrong one with hilarious results sometimes! But the word count makes it worth the extra editing to me. It's not perfect but it allows me to get the shape of a scene down really fast.
I'm so glad you did this video. It feels so much better to know that other fiction writers have the same issues I'm coming up against. Phew! Thank you! It's not all fun and games. ;)
Yay! I'm so glad dictation was a success for you. It's like anything else--it takes practice. It definitely feels weird at first. I found that speaking the punctuation took me out of the flow, so I just add it in after. Thank you so much for this video. I've been binging your channel the last few days and it's a new fave!😁
Thanks so much, Jenna! It was definitely awkward for a few minutes, but I did get used to it. That's interesting about the punctuation...hmm, I might have to experiment with that. (And thank you for watching!!😁)
Yes, that's what I do too. I add the punctuation afterwards because it was getting in the way. Also drink water to keep your voice lubricated otherwise you can give yourself a sore throat :-)
After watching this video, I used dictation to finish my first draft! I only had three chapters left but it was still about 5-7k words that I finished within a couple days. I was expecting it to take a couple weeks at my normal writing pace. This could be a game changer for my drafting process...
I gotta check out dictation. Sounds amazing! I love these vlogs for inspiration. Keep the great content coming. Fun and games is my favorite part but I too find my first draft is thin in that section. But I find it the easiest to flesh out in subsequent drafts because I love that section!
Thank you so much, Barrett - and yes, give it a shot! I just used the dictation tool in Microsoft Word. Google Docs has one as well. We're one and the same re: Fun & Games! Curious to see how it goes with this draft...
I find it helps to listen back to my audio when I'm proofreading and tweaking punctuation. I write scripts for stage and screen using the Howard Hawks Method, a dictation technique that's been around in Hollywood since the 1930s! Reaching a flow state with automatic speech-to-text, plus manual diarization, equals THE fastest path to a first draft.
I broke my arm about a month ago, and I am sure glad that I was already getting into dictation before the accident happened. It has allowed me to keep going and still write, even while I was in the hospital!
Hi Michelle, I'm glad dictation worked for you! That's awesome. It took me a while to adjust to it. It was almost too fast for my writing brain, if you know what i mean? Typing speed and speaking speed are very different and I found myself stalling frequently, wondering what to say next! I found that having an idea of what you want the scene to achieve before you start dictating definitely helps. And I need my hubby to be out of the house - I can't do it if I think he can hear me! Anyway, I'm glad it helped get you into the flow of your story, Best Wishes, Carolyn
Yeah, same here, Carolyn! In a weird way, the fact that dictation would turn off if I was silent for ten seconds kind of forced me to speed up and just blurt stuff out and move on. (I'm probably going to find some hilariously awful lines when I read this draft through, lol!)
That last part you said is exactly why I hate dictation lol. I tried it a couple of times and just having to go back and correct all of the things the dictation app got wrong or that it missed altogether, not to mention having to go back and add the punctuation or correct the punctuation because it got that wrong too, it took longer just to fix those issues than to type it outright. But I am glad that you got so many words done. And I have to say hello to Rosa lol! Love the video Michelle. Take care!❤❤
LOL I totally get it! I'm already thinking that ultimately, this is going to be a new zero draft tool for me, maybe not so much first drafts. Rosa says hi! :D Thank you so much for watching, JC!
I've also started dictating during Camp Nano, and it's been a game-changer! I probably have undiagnosed ADHD so being free to move around while still getting words down is fantastic. I'm interested to see how fast you can write your novel this way. Good luck! 😊
Just found your channel, great vid. I'm now 35k words into my very first novel! I also started trying dictation and testing that. Though I feel like my last two chapters just turned out poorly haha needing better description and more compelling dialogue, the tension better written, and action. Maybe that is due to I probably needed the scene and chapter a bit more fleshed out and plotted before I went on the dictation walk. I have also been using my audio recorder to dictate it, and using Aiko AI to transcribe it for free for me. I then tell chatGPT to not change any of it just fix the grammer for me. And then I pop that into Scrivener as first draft content. Since I just started dictating and learning that I have to improve that writting skill we sill see. Some of the stuff I think it's good, and I feel like some of the first draft content is not so good haha. Maybe everyone feels that way? I have also found that 25 min sprints did NOT do well for me to continue to break my flow at the 25 min mark. I found doing 60 min sprints for flow WAY better for me to just GO in the flow for a while, and then get the break after a 60 min push, 45min sometimes. I so so relate to hitting a wall of the tough part to write. I had that yesterday... I think I had to shift my drafting walking dictation session back to dictation of beats and ideas for the scene to further flesh it out a bit. And then when I went back to writing it and the dialogue I don't know, I wasn't super feeling it for the two chapters yesterday but maybe after I edit and craft it more maybe it ends up turning out better then i'm feeling.... do you have that? I feel like I'm allowing myself in the drafting to not nail down all the description and character description first go but fix it more after in the editing, on that part maybe it is just creating more work for my self in the editing pass.... Trial and error to figure out my process I guess haha. Like what you were saying of a hallow scene is EXACTLY the discouragment I felt of my two scenes I walked and dictated yesterday. Thanks for this! As I am learning to be a writer more in my Epic Fantasy I totally relate to all your saying on this for reals!
I use Pomodoro technique with Storm - rain sounds, but if I am with the flow and the breaks comes it kills it, so I end having white noise, very low, as a rumour, and I am more productive. I take breaks whenever the writing tells me there is a break: end of chapter - a low rhythm situation...
That sounds like a really great process! I think a whole lot of this comes down to just finding our own natural writing process 'rhythm' and being flexible with it.
Thank you so much! I actually have a tiny tripod, so I put the camera on my desk between me and the laptop. It doesn't feel nearly as awkward as it sounds lol
I finished my Camp Nano draft on Wednesday! 😁🥳 I’m already working on the rewrite. 😅 I’ve tried dictation before and it didn’t seem to work for me. Maybe because I write in first person present? But this has inspired me to give it another shot! I’ve heard Otter is a good app.
YES!!! Congrats, Shante, that's awesome!!! 😁 Let me know how it goes, if you try dictation again! I'm wondering if this is just going to be a brief love affair for me lol. I did it Weds/Thursday and it was really great!
I hope you do a follow up with this dictation experience. I’m interested in your thoughts during the revision process. Some programs are better than others in capturing words: “I cut a rose” vs “a cup arose”. 😂 I always look forward to your videos and seeing Rosa. 🤗
Thanks J! I have a feeling I'm going to be talking about dictation a LOT, lol. I wrote over 10k in three days because of it. O.o LOL I did have some pretty funny typos like that! I have a character named Thea and it keeps noting her as Fear. "Oh no!" Fear cried. 😂
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor 😯 Wow!! That’s A LOT of words! 🤔 You got me thinking now. It’s hilarious that Thea came out as Fear! I think I’ll try and dictate, too. It sounds fun!
Wow. 😳 that is a lot of words in an hour. If I could think out loud (and not have to cram myself into a closet or something to keep my neighbours from hearing me through the paper thin apartment walls😅) that would make things soooo much easier! But I find my thoughts will only flow when I get lost in writing, and sometimes I can only think through things only with writing by hand. On the massive set of characters bit, I usually try and have the MC run into each almost one at a time. Like going from point A to B and might bump into this one here, have that one catch their eye, so on and so forth. Or, sometimes (if I can get away with it in the story I'm writing) describe the characters (or at least a few of them) through a different POV so that when the MC meets them, you just have to use basic reminders so the reader is like. "Oh, the blond guy is so-and-so, and the girl playing with her necklace is the one we met earlier" So does/can Logan bump into any of your characters at the convention before she meets them, or is it a straight cut to the meeting scene? Like character A bumping into her as she is entering the convention, mutters a sorry (hurried or otherwise) that has her focus on them and their appearance. Character B maybe laughs in a way that draws her attention so that she sees them in a crowd, their costume standing out just that bit that she takes note. Or character C (maybe nervous, maybe impatient) standing off to the side somewhere absentmindedly fiddling with a noticeable part of their costume while waiting for one of the others and scanning the crowd. It won't be full blown descriptions like, oh they were exactly this height with these colour eyes, and this one bit their nails down to nubs. That can come later on when the MC has time to notice/actually be close enough to see. But would this help with your character descriptions not being a whole 2 pages? Or has this already crossed your mind and been discarded as implausible?
Ahhh that is a great suggestion, K! I've done that in previous books. I'll have to think about whether I can make it work in this one. I do kind of like that she's sort of overwhelmed by meeting them all at once...hmm. Definitely keeping this in mind. I can tell this book is going to need a massive revision once it's drafted, so it's completely possible this scene might change and I could introduce them this way!
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor she can still be overwhelmed, especially after getting a glimpse of several of the members in the group. It could be an "okay, wait, what? Don't I know--didn't I see..." (Gets glimpses of memory of having seen several/each of them) "so...they're together...?" with her being overwhelmed at the size of the group. Though, I don't know if Logan is introverted/shy/socially anxious when confronted with the idea of being in something more than a one-on-one conversation/meeting. But yeah, depending on what the situation is (only you know this) she could feel kinda intimidated, almost like they're ganging up on her. I'm just throwing out ideas here on how I'd write the scenes. But I got a feeling your characters are way more extroverted than mine. 😅 Whatever you plan to do, I wish you good luck with it. (And I really hope you get a publisher for this book, because I can't wait to read it!😁)
I do the majority of my writing on my iPad in Pages using speech to text. I find it that works best for me and then I’m able to transport it into Microsoft Word.
I use dictation on the notes app in my phone when I have an idea and I'm driving . If I could set it up so that I could use it in the shower I would because those are the two times I seem to have the most "breakthroughs"
Thanks so much, Lindsay! I'm just using the dictation feature in Microsoft Word. It's weird because I hate literally everything about Word but this is working pretty great!
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor Its awesome! Have to be careful with my fantasy pronunciations & my Trini accent makes for some hilarious dictation translations but its such a novel phenomenon!
I came back to this video because I'm going to try to give dictation a try. My only worry is that I write fantasy and thus have a lot of made-up names for people and places and I'm not sure how that will all work out. Guess I'll just be using the replacement tool a lot!
That's awesome! Okay, I had that same problem and the most annoying thing was that it would actually translate one character's name five different ways, so control+F didn't help. Next time, I'm going to give each character a corresponding 'basic' name that dictation will recognize so that find and replace is easier (aka Susan = Arya, etc).
Honestly, dictation frustrates me because of my English accent and pronunciation(English is not my first language). I have to repeat words a lot of times before the right word is dictated.
I’m sad because I was excited the first time, thinking how much words I could get down because I speak faster than writing/typing.
Anyone got tips for my problem?
That's such a great question - pinning this to the top in the hopes that more people will see it! It does say in this article that the more you use dictation (in iOS, at least) the more it 'learns' your accent and gets more accurate - curious to hear if anyone can verify that! www.imore.com/how-use-dictation-mac
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor thank you! And that’s interesting, although don’t have Mac
@@libraryofadventures7800 Ahh, okay - so hopefully others with Windows can help us out here with some suggestions!
I work sort of adjacent to the industry that produces these apps and unfortunately, this is an issue that doesn’t have a great fix. There is a system of racism within this industry, much like facial recognition, that means that American and English accents are the only ones that the tech is reliably being created to recognize so far. The only tip I’ve seen is, unfortunately, to do your dictation as a voice recording (like a voice memo on your phone or just a recording into something free like Audacity), and then transcribe it yourself or pay for a transcription service. I’m really hoping someone else has another idea for you!
Dragon Dictate is supposed to be the best dictation software on the market but they no longer support Macs so it's PCs only now and it's not cheap either - but what it does do is create a profile for each user and learns your accent the more you use it. I am very softly spoken and I often have a blocked nose due to hayfever so sometimes I have to say a word three times to get it to register. Even then the word they have inserted is the wrong one with hilarious results sometimes! But the word count makes it worth the extra editing to me. It's not perfect but it allows me to get the shape of a scene down really fast.
Guys. Dictation. Why did I not try this sooner????? 😂
I'm so glad you did this video. It feels so much better to know that other fiction writers have the same issues I'm coming up against. Phew! Thank you! It's not all fun and games. ;)
Thanks so much, Heather! LOL no, no it most certainly is not! 😂
Yay! I'm so glad dictation was a success for you. It's like anything else--it takes practice. It definitely feels weird at first. I found that speaking the punctuation took me out of the flow, so I just add it in after. Thank you so much for this video. I've been binging your channel the last few days and it's a new fave!😁
Thanks so much, Jenna! It was definitely awkward for a few minutes, but I did get used to it. That's interesting about the punctuation...hmm, I might have to experiment with that. (And thank you for watching!!😁)
Yes, that's what I do too. I add the punctuation afterwards because it was getting in the way. Also drink water to keep your voice lubricated otherwise you can give yourself a sore throat :-)
After watching this video, I used dictation to finish my first draft! I only had three chapters left but it was still about 5-7k words that I finished within a couple days. I was expecting it to take a couple weeks at my normal writing pace. This could be a game changer for my drafting process...
Hey, that's awesome!!! I'm so happy dictation is working for you, too! It's been a game changer for me too, for sure.
I gotta check out dictation. Sounds amazing! I love these vlogs for inspiration. Keep the great content coming.
Fun and games is my favorite part but I too find my first draft is thin in that section. But I find it the easiest to flesh out in subsequent drafts because I love that section!
Thank you so much, Barrett - and yes, give it a shot! I just used the dictation tool in Microsoft Word. Google Docs has one as well.
We're one and the same re: Fun & Games! Curious to see how it goes with this draft...
I find it helps to listen back to my audio when I'm proofreading and tweaking punctuation. I write scripts for stage and screen using the Howard Hawks Method, a dictation technique that's been around in Hollywood since the 1930s! Reaching a flow state with automatic speech-to-text, plus manual diarization, equals THE fastest path to a first draft.
Glad you found dictation works for you, Michelle. Have a great weekend. Happy writing! :)
Thanks, Heather!! Hope you're having a great weekend too! :)
I broke my arm about a month ago, and I am sure glad that I was already getting into dictation before the accident happened. It has allowed me to keep going and still write, even while I was in the hospital!
Ack, sorry to hear about your arm, John! Dictation to the rescue, for real!
Hi Michelle, I'm glad dictation worked for you! That's awesome. It took me a while to adjust to it. It was almost too fast for my writing brain, if you know what i mean? Typing speed and speaking speed are very different and I found myself stalling frequently, wondering what to say next! I found that having an idea of what you want the scene to achieve before you start dictating definitely helps. And I need my hubby to be out of the house - I can't do it if I think he can hear me! Anyway, I'm glad it helped get you into the flow of your story, Best Wishes, Carolyn
Yeah, same here, Carolyn! In a weird way, the fact that dictation would turn off if I was silent for ten seconds kind of forced me to speed up and just blurt stuff out and move on. (I'm probably going to find some hilariously awful lines when I read this draft through, lol!)
That last part you said is exactly why I hate dictation lol. I tried it a couple of times and just having to go back and correct all of the things the dictation app got wrong or that it missed altogether, not to mention having to go back and add the punctuation or correct the punctuation because it got that wrong too, it took longer just to fix those issues than to type it outright. But I am glad that you got so many words done. And I have to say hello to Rosa lol! Love the video Michelle. Take care!❤❤
LOL I totally get it! I'm already thinking that ultimately, this is going to be a new zero draft tool for me, maybe not so much first drafts.
Rosa says hi! :D Thank you so much for watching, JC!
I've also started dictating during Camp Nano, and it's been a game-changer! I probably have undiagnosed ADHD so being free to move around while still getting words down is fantastic. I'm interested to see how fast you can write your novel this way. Good luck! 😊
I love dictation. It took me a few sessions to get to grips with it and not edit anything while I talked, but my productivity shot up once I adapted.
That's awesome, Anna! I'm excited about this. I had a really great writing week thanks to dictation.
Just found your channel, great vid. I'm now 35k words into my very first novel! I also started trying dictation and testing that. Though I feel like my last two chapters just turned out poorly haha needing better description and more compelling dialogue, the tension better written, and action. Maybe that is due to I probably needed the scene and chapter a bit more fleshed out and plotted before I went on the dictation walk. I have also been using my audio recorder to dictate it, and using Aiko AI to transcribe it for free for me. I then tell chatGPT to not change any of it just fix the grammer for me. And then I pop that into Scrivener as first draft content. Since I just started dictating and learning that I have to improve that writting skill we sill see. Some of the stuff I think it's good, and I feel like some of the first draft content is not so good haha. Maybe everyone feels that way? I have also found that 25 min sprints did NOT do well for me to continue to break my flow at the 25 min mark. I found doing 60 min sprints for flow WAY better for me to just GO in the flow for a while, and then get the break after a 60 min push, 45min sometimes. I so so relate to hitting a wall of the tough part to write. I had that yesterday... I think I had to shift my drafting walking dictation session back to dictation of beats and ideas for the scene to further flesh it out a bit. And then when I went back to writing it and the dialogue I don't know, I wasn't super feeling it for the two chapters yesterday but maybe after I edit and craft it more maybe it ends up turning out better then i'm feeling.... do you have that? I feel like I'm allowing myself in the drafting to not nail down all the description and character description first go but fix it more after in the editing, on that part maybe it is just creating more work for my self in the editing pass.... Trial and error to figure out my process I guess haha. Like what you were saying of a hallow scene is EXACTLY the discouragment I felt of my two scenes I walked and dictated yesterday. Thanks for this! As I am learning to be a writer more in my Epic Fantasy I totally relate to all your saying on this for reals!
I use Pomodoro technique with Storm - rain sounds, but if I am with the flow and the breaks comes it kills it, so I end having white noise, very low, as a rumour, and I am more productive. I take breaks whenever the writing tells me there is a break: end of chapter - a low rhythm situation...
That sounds like a really great process! I think a whole lot of this comes down to just finding our own natural writing process 'rhythm' and being flexible with it.
I tried dictation and it just didn't work for me, but I'm glad it does for you! Yay on all the words!
Thanks so much, Joey! :D
You needed a external mic
This is a great video, thank you! How did you film the close ups of your hands typing (almost over your shoulder POV)? That was such a cool angle!
Thank you so much! I actually have a tiny tripod, so I put the camera on my desk between me and the laptop. It doesn't feel nearly as awkward as it sounds lol
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor thank you!
I finished my Camp Nano draft on Wednesday! 😁🥳 I’m already working on the rewrite. 😅 I’ve tried dictation before and it didn’t seem to work for me. Maybe because I write in first person present? But this has inspired me to give it another shot! I’ve heard Otter is a good app.
YES!!! Congrats, Shante, that's awesome!!! 😁 Let me know how it goes, if you try dictation again! I'm wondering if this is just going to be a brief love affair for me lol. I did it Weds/Thursday and it was really great!
I hope you do a follow up with this dictation experience. I’m interested in your thoughts during the revision process. Some programs are better than others in capturing words: “I cut a rose” vs “a cup arose”. 😂 I always look forward to your videos and seeing Rosa. 🤗
Thanks J! I have a feeling I'm going to be talking about dictation a LOT, lol. I wrote over 10k in three days because of it. O.o
LOL I did have some pretty funny typos like that! I have a character named Thea and it keeps noting her as Fear. "Oh no!" Fear cried. 😂
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor 😯 Wow!! That’s A LOT of words! 🤔 You got me thinking now. It’s hilarious that Thea came out as Fear! I think I’ll try and dictate, too. It sounds fun!
Wow. 😳 that is a lot of words in an hour. If I could think out loud (and not have to cram myself into a closet or something to keep my neighbours from hearing me through the paper thin apartment walls😅) that would make things soooo much easier! But I find my thoughts will only flow when I get lost in writing, and sometimes I can only think through things only with writing by hand.
On the massive set of characters bit, I usually try and have the MC run into each almost one at a time. Like going from point A to B and might bump into this one here, have that one catch their eye, so on and so forth. Or, sometimes (if I can get away with it in the story I'm writing) describe the characters (or at least a few of them) through a different POV so that when the MC meets them, you just have to use basic reminders so the reader is like. "Oh, the blond guy is so-and-so, and the girl playing with her necklace is the one we met earlier"
So does/can Logan bump into any of your characters at the convention before she meets them, or is it a straight cut to the meeting scene? Like character A bumping into her as she is entering the convention, mutters a sorry (hurried or otherwise) that has her focus on them and their appearance. Character B maybe laughs in a way that draws her attention so that she sees them in a crowd, their costume standing out just that bit that she takes note. Or character C (maybe nervous, maybe impatient) standing off to the side somewhere absentmindedly fiddling with a noticeable part of their costume while waiting for one of the others and scanning the crowd.
It won't be full blown descriptions like, oh they were exactly this height with these colour eyes, and this one bit their nails down to nubs. That can come later on when the MC has time to notice/actually be close enough to see.
But would this help with your character descriptions not being a whole 2 pages? Or has this already crossed your mind and been discarded as implausible?
Ahhh that is a great suggestion, K! I've done that in previous books. I'll have to think about whether I can make it work in this one. I do kind of like that she's sort of overwhelmed by meeting them all at once...hmm.
Definitely keeping this in mind. I can tell this book is going to need a massive revision once it's drafted, so it's completely possible this scene might change and I could introduce them this way!
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor she can still be overwhelmed, especially after getting a glimpse of several of the members in the group. It could be an "okay, wait, what? Don't I know--didn't I see..." (Gets glimpses of memory of having seen several/each of them) "so...they're together...?" with her being overwhelmed at the size of the group. Though, I don't know if Logan is introverted/shy/socially anxious when confronted with the idea of being in something more than a one-on-one conversation/meeting. But yeah, depending on what the situation is (only you know this) she could feel kinda intimidated, almost like they're ganging up on her.
I'm just throwing out ideas here on how I'd write the scenes. But I got a feeling your characters are way more extroverted than mine. 😅
Whatever you plan to do, I wish you good luck with it. (And I really hope you get a publisher for this book, because I can't wait to read it!😁)
@@kanashiiookami6537 Love this. She's not introverted, but she's definitely overwhelmed for other reasons. (Thank you, K!!!)
Can you do a video on dictation? How you do it, whether you have to do heavy editing afterwards?
Absolutely! I want to get a few weeks/months more experience with it first, but yes!
I do the majority of my writing on my iPad in Pages using speech to text. I find it that works best for me and then I’m able to transport it into Microsoft Word.
Oh cool! I'll have to try that. I occasionally use Google Docs on my iPad. Thanks, Marva!
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor I love Pages!
I use dictation on the notes app in my phone when I have an idea and I'm driving . If I could set it up so that I could use it in the shower I would because those are the two times I seem to have the most "breakthroughs"
What a great idea! And LOL I have a friend who put a whiteboard up in the shower for that same reason 😂
what are you using to dictate? An app?
Congrats on all the words! I'm so happy it worked for youuu!
Thanks so much, Lindsay! I'm just using the dictation feature in Microsoft Word. It's weird because I hate literally everything about Word but this is working pretty great!
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor if you like Google Docs better they have one too. Under Tools >Voice Typing
@@jacquelineclairereinerical4831 Yes! I tried that and it works great! :D
Didn't know that Google Docs has dictation, def gonna try that today!
Aye look I just learned something from you, Michelle :-)
Heyyy! :D Please let me know what you think of it, Sio!!
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor Its awesome! Have to be careful with my fantasy pronunciations & my Trini accent makes for some hilarious dictation translations but its such a novel phenomenon!
I came back to this video because I'm going to try to give dictation a try. My only worry is that I write fantasy and thus have a lot of made-up names for people and places and I'm not sure how that will all work out. Guess I'll just be using the replacement tool a lot!
That's awesome! Okay, I had that same problem and the most annoying thing was that it would actually translate one character's name five different ways, so control+F didn't help. Next time, I'm going to give each character a corresponding 'basic' name that dictation will recognize so that find and replace is easier (aka Susan = Arya, etc).
@@MichelleSchustermanAuthor I was wondering if that would be easiest! It'll be so weird calling them by basic names, lol.
I will try dictation as well! Your dog has such an attitude :D
Let me know what you think, jp! And ROFL yeah, she was in a chatty mood that day! :D
So... how bad is the edits?
The tinking sounds in the background are SUPER annoying. Made me bail before the video was over!