Text-to-speech - does it actually work?

Last week our English teacher told us about a free text-to-speech app called "Dragon Dictation", which he said is surprisingly accurate. He asked us to try it out and write a blog post about it.

To do so I went to the app store, where I had to find out that this app is not available for the Windows Phone yet. I looked for similar apps and there were a few, but only one was for free. It is called "Dictation Station", but since it didn't work at all I deleted it after 5 minutes. Instead of "How are you doing" it wrote "You doing", instead of "Hello, I'm Julia" "it wrote "I'm 2334" and so on. To sum up, I couldn't find a good text-to-speech app for my phone.

But after doing some research I found out that I didn't even need an app, because my phone has a "build-in" text-to-speech function and it works surprisingly well. I tried to send a couple of E-Mails and text messages and most of the time there were no mistakes in it. I'll definitely use it more often, especially when sending text messages or E-Mails from my phone, because it's much faster and more convenient than me typing every single letter.