Starting off with, “People have been talking (occasionally with expletives) to their computers since way before they could listen,” the latest Smart Dog Tech Tails #841 brings Speech-to-Text dictation to our attention with “You Don’t Say…”

The writer goes on to pronounce this thoughtful observation, “Dictating to your technological artifact is almost exactly like speaking to humanoid interlocutors, except for a few key differences.” And he explains, and recommends this article with nifty chart of dictation commands from Mac 101: Dictation using ML or an OS X app.