Speech-to-text applications are on our phones, part of our cars’ infotainment systems, and have even made their way onto our desktops, but despite their almost-ubiquity many of us use them incorrectly. Kevin Purdy over at Fast Company has a handy guide to mastering voice recognition software, full of a number of obvious suggestions–know what the application can and can’t do; keep the microphone clear; utilize any ambient noise-reduction settings–that many of us nonetheless ignore. READ MORE
