My last post was about Short Text, a way of using one or two letters, sometimes repeated, to type and also handwrite more efficiently. I used the Text Replacement feature…

I’ve been working on a project for the past year or so that has to do with efficient silent input. When I use a computer to write, I use speech…

As online meetings, webinars, and online conferences become increasingly common, I’m finding that some tools I’ve used for other purposes are really good for taking notes online. The key to…

I went to a very well-managed remote conference last week – the Collaborative Journalism Summit (CJS). The CJS organizers used Zoom Webinar for the conference and Zoom Meetings for networking…

If you’re using Zoom for playing music, you’ll sound best to those you’re playing for if you use Original Sound. By default, Zoom is optimized for speaking, so it filters…

Frontline published a series of articles about Covid-19 in April. Two of the articles link to more material from the main subject of the story: an interactive transcript thanks to…

There are another 38 interactive interviews on the PBS Frontline site. This time we enabled 38 source interviews from the immigration documentary Zero Tolerance. Like the interactive source interviews from…

As this year’s iPhone software update nears I’ve become a bit disappointed with Apple. Despite bringing an innovative, comprehensive implementation of speech input technology to iOS13, the company is falling…

As I wrote earlier I’m excited about the iOS13 update because it looks to be taking speech input a big step forward. I’ve gotten a chance to test the public…

Wow. Speech input is about to change in a big way. It looks like Apple is finally addressing the big gap in speech input on mobile devices. For many years…