speech to type app?

iPhone or the iPad. It’s built into the keyboard but you probably have to turn it on first which you can do by going to the settings app > general >keyboard then enable dictation toggle at the bottom. After that whenever the onscreen keyboard comes up you will have a button with a microphone next to the space bar on the bottom left that you can press to start dictating.

You could also ask Siri to write a text or a note etc.

 

Thanks.

I’ve just seen the microphone button on the keyboard and am dictating right now

Wow

 

Update: I really didn’t quite get on with this speech to type thing.

It works quite well, but I find I don’t like talking to myself. Also, I have to edit afterwards with the punctuation and so on, and that is a bit annoying. I may play with it some more and see how I get on but, I think perhaps in the long run I won’t use it so much.

 

A tip for anyone using Dragon (not on the Mac - apparently that's not really Dragon even if it says it is) - think about what you want to say and then say it in a whole sentence, if you can, because Dragon recognises context and its guess at what you've said will be more accurate.

 

In the writing industry in which I work, Dragon Naturally Speaking is still regarded as the best available, as far as I know: it comes in various levels, including, I think, a technical and scientific level which might be helpful to a surveyor. And of course if he's using it professionally then it's a business expense, so money is less of an object. But it would definitely be a question of trying things out and seeing what works best in an individual case, so if your tech contains some sort of built-in software that's probably the place to start.