- [Narrator] Would you like to learn
how to dictate your book in any software or device?
Then in today's video, we're gonna show you
five different ways to Voice Dictate your content,
so stay tuned!
- Hey, I'm Dale L. Roberts bestselling author,
as well as a self publishing advocate,
who wants to show you how to publish books that sell,
and you're gonna wanna make sure you stick around
to the very end, because I'm gonna show you
five different ways of dictating your book
in any software device and good news
you don't need Dragon Software
or any of the hardware that comes with that.
Lets start it out with number one,
the easy button as I call it Rev.
It's really simple, all you need to do is
get your mobile device out
or any type of recording device and record yourself
and you take the audio file
and you're gonna to send it over to Rev
to get them to transcribe it.
Actually, if you visit DALELINKS.COM/REV,
you can get $10 off your first order,
and that's about eight minutes of content,
which is pretty stinking good
If you don't mind me saying so.
Now comes the DIY methods, all right
So warning ahead of time
anytime you're doing Voice Dictation,
Voice-to-Text type features,
you're gonna need to speak out your punctuation.
So when you finish up a sentence,
you're gonna need to say period,
or question Mark or exclamation point.
And there are sometimes special commands,
but for the sake of keeping this video short,
I will let you search up some of those special commands,
maybe answered a few of them here and there.
The number one DIY method, Microsoft Word,
select Dictate, speak out everything
and edit it afterwards, pretty simple, right?
Let's keep this train rolling,
we're gonna go over to Google Docs,
that's 100% free as long as you've got a Gmail account
select Add-ons hover over Speech Recognition SoundWriter,
select start, the first time you'll be prompted
with a script attached to this document
needs your permission to run, select Continue,
you'll be prompted to log into your Gmail account.
Click Allow once prompted.
Now the nice thing is you got this out of the way
you won't have to worry about those permissions later on
so you come back in, it's already set,
select the Record Button,
first time you'll be prompted by a browser to allow it
now, speak out everything, press the Record Button to stop
in most instances if you have say for instance, a PC
or a laptop, you gotta make sure
that you have at least an Onboard Mic
to kinda do some of these things.
But I hopefully kinda knew that ahead of time,
most laptops already have an Onboard Microphone.
Mac, go to system preferences, select the Keyboard,
select the Dictation Tab,
make sure Voice Dictation is on
and use Enhanced Dictation, select your preferred shortcut.
Go to any document software, be it over on Pages,
Keynote, Notepad, It doesn't matter
and all you gonna do is use your preferred shortcut here,
now, speak out everything, remember punctuation
and here's a command for you to remember here
is to enter you just say next line,
click Done When you're finished.
Now it's time for Mobile, I love to do Mobile here,
so most any app is going to work with this,
If you got some type of texting, I'm showing you iPhone,
but this will work nonetheless over on Android as well
so I'm gonna go into iPhone Notes
I'm gonna tap a new document, tap the Microphone option
I'll speak out everything and remember punctuation
in this command say next line when you want to press Enter
kinda like what you're doing on a Keyboard.
I prefer Mobile most of the time
because I can dictate on the go
so this is really a fast and efficient way
of dictating your content.
As a reminder, you're gonna have to go
through each one of these and edit
and of course proofread some of this stuff
so don't think that you should be able
to just write a book through Voice Dictation alone
It's gonna need some deep editing
before you can even publish it at all.
Hey, and while we're talking about Dictation
and Transcriptions, I did talk about Rev.com.
Earlier inside this video,
I actually have a full review about Rev.com.
You do wanna make sure you take a look at that
the very next video I'll see you there,
what are you waiting for?
See you in the next video.