{"id":20232,"date":"2018-01-19T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20232"},"modified":"2018-01-19T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T19:57:18","slug":"dictation-eases-data-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/19\/dictation-eases-data-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictation Eases Data Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17730\">Adam C. Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/17730\">\n<p>And you know what? Dictation in iOS was way better than on the Mac, and no matter which of the variants I used, it formatted the number right every time. In subsequent testing, I discovered that saying &ldquo;dot&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;point&rdquo; prevented a few spurious spaces from creeping in.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&rsquo;d suggest that dictating numbers into iOS might be the most accurate way of entering them manually. It&rsquo;s easy to make mistakes when transferring your gaze back and forth between a sheet of paper and the keyboard, and it&rsquo;s also easy to tap a wrong key accidentally. But when you&rsquo;re dictating, you can devote all your attention to reading and speaking the numbers, eliminating both context-switching and typing mistakes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam C. Engst: And you know what? Dictation in iOS was way better than on the Mac, and no matter which of the variants I used, it formatted the number right every time. In subsequent testing, I discovered that saying &ldquo;dot&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;point&rdquo; prevented a few spurious spaces from creeping in. [&#8230;] In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[812,31,1472,30,1529],"class_list":["post-20232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dictation","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20233,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions\/20233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}