please forgive me if this post contains spelling errors orpunctuation errors or any errors. Today, after many people have told me that I need this, I finally purchased Dragon, NaturallySpeaking.
This software, which is normally very expensive, was only $35 with a rebate and a discount from Tiger direct.com.
She came with the headset that I am using right now. What I actually just said was that it came with the headsetI am using right now-not she.
the reason I purchased this software was because I was recently asked to write a book. That's a lie. Actually I was asked to write a book about a year and a half ago by a division of Random House. wow! It actually knew how to spell Random House and capitalize it. But I digress...
my contact at Random House has become very frustrated with me because I have not finished the project by the deadline as was presented to me. When I told him that I just can't stand sitting and typing for hours and hours and hourshe suggested that I get the software and simply dictate my book, send him the manuscript, and an editor would take it from there. Now that I'm actually using it I can see why he said that. Who needs of proper punctuation when someone can edit your stuff anyway? Just talk away a you are an author!
Anyway you can see that it's not perfect. However, I find this extremely useful. I used to use a tape recorder and then I would have to listen to my tape recorder and tight for my dictation.
Type for my dictation is what I meant to say.
as you can see, it's not working perfectly. I still haven't figured out why my sentences aren't being capitalized all of the time.
However this software has won tons of awards and boasts a 99% accuracy-out-of-the-box. So why does this blog looks so choppy and bad? because I haven't even trained it yet. You have to spend many hours training the software so it recognize your accent your speech pattern and your vocabulary in general.
I was just so excited to try it out and make my first blog in which I lean back in my chair with an ice tea, and don't even touch the key keyboard-that I just went ahead and made this post. one small problem-the reason that last sentence read key keyboardis because I sometimes stutter when I speak. I don't know how the software is going to deal with that, but I'm excited to find out.
I do think this is absolutely amazing software and once it learns to understand my mumbling, I figure I have a very good relationship together.
I would recommend it to anybody. Especially someone that may have arthritis or just has a lot of typing to do. You may become the most prolific blogger on active rain. I'll try this out again in a week after I have the software trained and will see how perfectly it works.
I have not touched my mouse or keyboard this entire time. Any punctuation that you see are paragraph breaks or anything else or I'll done through the microphone I'm wearing on my head right now.
Again I apologize for all the spelling and punctuation errors. But according to every review I've read of Dragon, this software is only going to get better.
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