Teachme Biz allows you to create manuals easily by just taking photos and entering text. However, some people might think, "Even typing text is troublesome..." For those people, here's an introduction to creating manuals using voice input.
Are You Using Voice Recognition Features?
Both iOS for iPhone and iPad, and Android smartphones come with a voice recognition feature. When you speak into the microphone, it properly recognizes your words and provides the answers or results you want. On iPhone, this function is called Siri, and some people even play with it by asking Siri impossible questions just to enjoy seeing it struggle.
However, there are few cases where this feature serves a practical purpose. As shown below, it will tell you the weather if you ask, but I've never seen anyone around me checking the weather this way.
Don't Underestimate Voice Input!
Voice recognition can also be used for text input. When the keyboard is displayed as usual during text input, just tap the microphone button on the keyboard. Then, speak into the microphone (somewhat carefully and with clear pronunciation), and it will convert your words into text with remarkably high accuracy. This eliminates the effort of manually typing on the keyboard. Even if there are recognition errors, it's very convenient because you only need to correct those specific parts.
The key is to speak as clearly as possible and distinctly state punctuation marks. If you want to input "...します。", saying "...します まる" will properly convert it including the period "。". It's really amazing.
Press the microphone button on the keyboard...
Speak into the microphone.
It was entered correctly!!
Pay Attention to Keyboard Language Mode!
There's just one thing to be careful about. If you press the microphone button while the keyboard is in English mode, it will try to recognize English and won't recognize Japanese properly.
As a test, I tried saying the same phrase [まず初めにスイッチを入れます。] (First, turn on the switch), but it turned into something like "Maserati has a lot of fixtures, so we need to make a lot of models" (loosely translated) - some mysterious English.
If language recognition isn't working well, check your keyboard's language mode.
The accuracy isn't 100%, but if you think "Typing is troublesome!" or "My fingers are too big to type easily on a smartphone!", why not try voice input?