![]() When I’d finished my rant the ‘Genius’ pointed at the watch to show me that it had perfectly and accurately transcribe my whole rant. And believe me, I had no qualms in telling the ‘Genius’ what I thought of this idea. Needless to say I scoffed at the ridiculous notion of using such a ropey piece of speech to text tech to dictate a message. While I was trying on the watch I was shown a function where I could choose to drop an inconvenient call and instead dictate and send a text message via the watch. That was until an eye opening incident in an Apple store with a Genius and an Apple watch. Based on this negative experience I tended to give ‘speech to text’ (voice activated dictation apps) a wide birth. It probably only successfully converted around 80% of my speech (85% if I spoke in an American accent). I remember a few years back trying the iPhone dictation app from Dragon and being far from impressed. ![]() There is however one predicted development that does have the potential to live up to the promise of BTF2. ![]() I’m rarely inspired to pay the extra £3 or £4 to see a 3D film, and rather than using video calling as my main form of communication, SMS and DM is generally my first port of call. What’s interesting though, is how reluctant we are to use these amazing technological developments. 26 years later all of these things (bar the hoverboard…for now) are actual consumer goods. When it first came out I watched BTF2 with a sense of excitement and anticipation for a time when the films predictions would be a reality. ![]() In the 60’s it was Space Odyssey 2001, the 70’s Star Trek, and in the 80’s ‘Back to the Future 2 (BTF2).’ While Space Odyssey’ and Star Trek were wildly off the mark, as the 21 st October 2015 approaches (the future date that Marty McFly travels to in BTF2) it seems like the writers of BFT2 somehow created a strangely accurate prediction of life in 2015.ģD films are back in our cinemas, we have video calling on our TV’s, voice control of our electronic devices, Self-lacing Trainers will soon be a reality and amazingly the hover board is actually a thing!!! In every generation there’s a sci fi film that truly suspends our disbelief and permits us to ponder what life in the future will bring. Nuance, the makers of Dragon Dictation release a new app to rival Apples impressive dictation tool. ![]()
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