The end of keyboarding

—“Wow,“ I kept saying to myself.
“Yes, yes, yes; this is fabulous!”
I was using “dictation” in “Pages,” Apple’s word-processor on my laptop.
And it was getting every word. I'm doing it now.
I use “dictation” on my iPhone; except there it’s called “voice-recognition.”
It's pretty good. I have to edit what it generates. It’ll misinterpret what I said. It even slipped in the occasional F-bomb.
Not long ago I got a new MacBook Pro laptop. It had an integral camera, now I needed a microphone — so I thought.
Actually it had one already.
I discovered that doing a TeleMed the other day.
“No microphone,” I said to the nurse.
“Just click the ‘accept’ button,” the nurse exclaimed.
“VIOLA!” Face-to-face with my doctor.
And also voice-to-voice.
A writer friend noted she used dictation. “Nice idea,” I thought to myself. “Dictation would save me time.”
I had a stroke 26 years ago, and as I get older my keyboarding gets spastic. Mistypes galore, often every word.
“Pages” has a dictation function, but I never tried it. I thought I needed a microphone. I have one, but it's put away.
My keyboarding got more and more spastic. The muse works fine, but my fingers don’t.
I write these blogs cursive on a legal pad, then key in later. Reading it into “dictation” would stop the spasticity.
I did that with my iPhone occasionally. Cursive to voice recognition, especially if I said a lot.
Voice recognition could muck up, but it was pretty good. Which means edit, i.e. take out the F-bombs.
So now I'm voice-recognitioning this laptop.
I graduated high school in 1962, college in 1966. Back then such things were beyond imagining.
Often I see Apple watches, Google, whatever. Can you say “Dick-Tracy wrist-radio?”
This blog was entirely entered with dictation.

• RE: This first attempt at “dictation……” —It takes almost the same amount of time, but takes out the frustration of mistyping every single word.