Creating A Vocal Story On A Kindle Fire By Hand

Introduction

The video is very ropey but it does show you how good the Kindle keyboard is at interpreting my handwriting. I would love to use my Kindle to create Vocal stories, but the only option is to use Office 265 or Google Docs, but getting it to stay in the Vocal editor needs a PC or desktop version of the browser. I don't use the Vocal apps (I have enough on my phoe as it is amd I do prefer a big screen when I am writing, which is why my ten-inch Kindle has been tempting me).

This turned into a narrative of my experience using the handwriting opton on my Kindle keyboard.

What I Wrote

I am on a train writing this on my Kindle using Office 365. The Kindle keyboard allows handwriting, which is how I am composing this article.

This is nothing more than an experiment to see if I can create Vocal stones easily on a remote device.

Hopefully, I will be able to access this document from my home computer after I have finished it.

I am impressed that it can recognise my scrawl and Scribbly spider writing, because I can't.

While it is far more usable than I thought it would be, it will be a major method of creation for me.

I am sure that other devices have a handwriting option, and it is remarkably accurate and is good for writing on the move.

I am on a five-hour train journey to Inverness, and as I am writing this, I am listening to a lot of music.

So far, I have had 'Equinox' by Jean-Michel Jarre, “ Reach For Love ‘ by Marcel King, and now 'Hotshots 11 ‘ by The Beta Band is playing.

I am amazed at what these devices allow us to do, and this is the first Vocal Story that I have tried to write reasonably successfully on this Kindle Fire.

Although I am writing this on Friday, the second of May, I will need to put it together properly on Monday, with video of me actually writing this story as evidence that it was handwritten on my device.

One of the things that you have to keep an eye out for is that as soon as you stop handwriting it converts it to document text, but that is something that you grow into.

This is the first time I have created a document online, and one of the issues is connectivity loss at times (Office 365 generally needs an online connection, although you can work offline via the app)

While I don’t think this is great for a final story, it is excellent for doing the main body to be finalised on my home computer.

Another thing is that sometimes it does not translate the handwriting correctly, often dropping out of the document completely, which is an annoyance.

Generally, I will give it an 80% score.

I picked this up two days later, and essentially, this is about the Kindle keyboard After, using Office 365 I started to get a bit cocky an dthought I could do a story directly in the vocal editor.

It let me give it a title and subheading and a picture, then I wrote the first verse of the poem. It didn't ask me to save, so I thought all was good, came out, went back in and I had lost my verse. That will be my next story/poem on Vocal, and luckily, I remembered the first verse and saved it in Docs.

Conclusion

So not perfect, but fine for capturing ideas that can then be finalised on the home computer or laptop.

Thank you for reading, and hope it might give you an idea or two.

A comment I got on the video short 😁 :