Summary

The website content discusses how ChatGPT can be used to efficiently edit and refine dictated text, significantly enhancing the speed and efficiency of content creation for writers and bloggers.

Abstract

The article explains that ChatGPT can be leveraged to transform messy dictated text into well-structured blog posts, allowing creators to produce content at a rate of 150 words per minute, which is significantly faster than the average typing speed of 40 words per minute. The author highlights the inefficiency of traditional voice-to-text systems like Siri due to their poor accuracy, which necessitates extensive editing. In contrast, ChatGPT is shown to be highly effective at cleaning up dictation errors, even for technical articles with complex terminology. The process involves dictating content into a voice typing system, then using ChatGPT to correct mistakes and improve formatting. The author demonstrates this through a video example and before-and-after excerpts from a technical article on SEO and ChatGPT. The main benefits of this approach include increased writing speed, reduced editing time, and the avoidance of AI-generated content pitfalls, such as inaccuracies and search engine detection issues.

Opinions

The author, a professional creator, finds ChatGPT's editing capabilities for dictated text to be more powerful and genuinely helpful than other AI applications like writing Haikus or providing relationship advice.
Siri's voice typing system is criticized for its inaccuracy, which the author experienced firsthand when attempting to dictate blog posts.
ChatGPT is praised for its ability to accurately interpret and correct the output from Siri's dictation, even when dealing with highly technical content.
The author is impressed with ChatGPT's performance, noting its minor error in confusing Google's "Bard" with "BERT," which is understandable given the AI's knowledge cutoff in 2021.
The author emphasizes the significant advantage of using ChatGPT for content creation, as it allows for rapid production of articles without compromising on quality or originality.

Using ChatGPT To Dictate a Full Blog Post

It lets me type at 150 words per minute

ChatGPT can do lots of impressive, flashy things, from writing Haikus to giving you relationship advice.

As a professional creator, though, I’ve found one ChatGPT function that’s far more powerful, and genuinely helpful in my content creation process, than all these flashy use cases put together.

ChatGPT can effortlessly edit dictated text.

The Power of Good Dictation

Doesn’t sound that world-changing right? Consider this: the average person can speak about 150 words per minute, but can only type about 40 words per minute. For writers and bloggers, typing speed is a major roadblock to fast content creation.

Dictating blog posts into your phone using a voice typing system (like Siri, which is built into your iPhone) can help to speed up your writing process.

But Siri’s accuracy is terrible. When I would dictate blog posts in the past, I found that I spent so much time editing Siri’s mistakes that it was easier to type the post out from the get-go.

ChatGPT has changed all that. The system can take the messy, highly imperfect output from Siri text dictation, and almost instantly transform it into a perfectly-formatted blog post.

Here’s a video showing how it works.

Dictating Technical Articles

My video example shows a fairly easy-to-understand article in the pets niche, which Siri got mostly right from the start.

But what if you’re dictating a highly technical article, with lots of words that Siri struggles to understand?

In my testing, ChatGPT could still make sense of the text, and clean it remarkably well.

Here’s some text from an article about SEO and ChatGPT that I’m currently working on. I dictated this into my phone with Siri.

It’s a weird time to be an SEO. ChatGPT from open AI I suddenly put large language miles on the public’s radar. More people than ever are using the technology both to create new contact, and to answer the kinds of basic questions that otherwise type in to google.

Search engines are taking note, and fast. Microsoft has already begun to roll out a chat GPT powered version of it’s Bing search engine, and Google is keeping pace with bard, it’s on a high powered chat system.

If both content, creation and contact discovery are automated by chat, GPT, and similar systems, does that mean it’s the end for SCO? Is there even a point in writing contact anymore?

It’s a mess, and would require a ton of editing to be publishable.

Here it is after editing with ChatGPT.

It’s a weird time to be an SEO. ChatGPT from OpenAI suddenly put large language models on the public’s radar. More people than ever are using the technology both to create new content, and to answer the kinds of basic questions that would otherwise be typed into Google.

Search engines are taking note, and fast. Microsoft has already begun to roll out a ChatGPT-powered version of its Bing search engine, and Google is keeping pace with BERT, its high-powered chat system.

If both content creation and content discovery are automated by ChatGPT and similar systems, does that mean it’s the end for SEO? Is there even a point in writing content anymore?

That’s impressive! Its only actual error was calling Google’s “Bard” service “BERT.” Given that ChatGPT only knows about the world up until 2021 — and Bard wasn’t announced until early this year — it’s not surprisingly that ChatGPT wouldn’t be aware of it.

Benefits of ChatGPT-Driven Dictation

The biggest benefit of dictating your articles, and then cleaning them up with ChatGPT, is the increased writing speed that this process unlocks.

Again, I can type at about 50 words per minute. But with practice, I can speak over 200 words per minute into my phone. That means I can write a 500-word article or news piece in about 3 minutes.

That’s a fantastic capability to add to my niche website toolkit!

And the best part is that — because ChatGPT is just cleaning up my words rather than generating its own — I don’t need to worry about accuracy issues, “hallucinations”, or running afoul of search engines’ AI text detectors.

How to Use It

Want to clean up your own dictated text using ChatGPT? You can try out the prompt in the video above, or this one, which I find also works well:

I rewrote this text from a voice dictation system to add punctuation, remove ums and other filler words, and clarify the wording. I also fixed words that the auto dictation software misheard.