Dictate Feature to Help Typing Faster

I recently had a minor wrist injury and due to lack of enough leave (1.5-2 months typically for minor ligament injury), I had to return to work from home. I could not move my wrist or type without wincing. Since typing was 60% of my job at that point in the project (I create trainings for adult learners), it was impossible to work.

My supervisor was sympathetic, so he helped me in the best possible way. He showed me the Dictate feature in MS Word. It is a small mic in the submenu.

You can just click it and begins speaking. It will type whatever you speak. Once you are done speaking, click the mic again and it will stop. It easily understands Indian accent, so I believe it works for others as well.

There is small downside, the typed material is not perfect. You will need to edit it, add punctuations, fix spellings. Also, it picks up all the close by voices, so it picked up my daughter as she told me about her day on the side. So, I had to delete that part. But it is still infinitely faster than typing every word.

Also, most smartphones provide the same feature on WordPress. If you open WordPress on phone (go online to your WordPress account or use the phone application), your typing pad will show a mic on the side. Just click it and speak. Click it again once you are done. The result is not as good as MS Word. The first two may be unrecognizable, but if you give it a few tries–go slower, emphasise your words correctly–you will be able to get a decent result on third or fourth try. It is just editing then.

Just try it. You wrist will thank you!