Voice Dictation For Writers: The Ultimate Guide To Speed Up Your Writing In 2020

Laurent Duperval
20 min readApr 21, 2020
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What were they thinking?

Computer keyboards have become smaller and smaller, making it ever more difficult to find a comfortable writing position.

That’s if you have the luxury of a keyboard.

Often, you will be pecking away at a screen like a chicken hunting for corn!

It’s even worse if you hurt one of your hands, or if you’ve developed RSI. You’re either hobbled or you work in constant pain.

There must be a better way to write than applying 19th-century skills to 21st-century technology.

There is!

Apply pre-19th-century skills to 21st-century technology.

Use voice dictation.

The benefits of voice dictation for writers are enormous. In fact, speech recognition software can be a small miracle in your life.

Miracles don’t just happen, though. They are a result of your efforts. When you do the work, the payoff is tremendous.

Using speech recognition, you can get your computer to (almost) act like the ones in Star Trek.

First, let’s make sure we understand what we are talking about.

What Is Voice Dictation…

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Laurent Duperval

Bilingual Cybersecurity Copywriter and Certified Content Marketer, I write content that attracts the customers you want. I write it so you don’t have to.