Voice is on Premium. If you're on it, this is the fastest way to use Buhata and most people underuse it because they assume there's a syntax to learn.
There isn't.
Lesson 1: say it the way you'd say it
Press the microphone and talk normally. All of these work:
- spent 20 on lunch
- weight 181
- remind me to call the school tomorrow
- add milk and eggs to the grocery list
- salary 8000 monthly
Try three of your own before reading on. What you're testing is whether you can stop composing sentences for a machine.
Lesson 2: several things in one breath
You don't need to pause between them or say "and". Keep talking.
Try one long sentence with three separate things in it: an expense, something for the shopping list, and a reminder. Buhata splits them itself and shows you what it found.
Lesson 3: the confirm screen is the point
Nothing is written until you confirm. Every action it understood gets listed, each with a tick you can clear.
Press the pencil on one. It opens that app's real editor with the fields already filled, which means you change one thing rather than starting over. This is worth doing once deliberately so you know it's there when you need it in a hurry.
Lesson 4: when it mishears
If a line needs a date it doesn't have, it asks instead of guessing. If it heard something Buhata doesn't track, it leaves the line out rather than filing it somewhere wrong.
There's a box at the bottom for anything it missed entirely. Use that instead of repeating the whole sentence.
Lesson 5: your language
Nine of them: English, Filipino, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian and Vietnamese. Set yours in the voice settings, or leave it following your phone.
Mixing two in one sentence works more often than you'd expect, so try it if that's how you actually talk.
What you should be able to do now
- Record three things in one sentence without thinking about phrasing
- Fix a misheard line without starting again
- Know what happens to something it couldn't understand
Next: Phone, computer and browser.