This is a test

[hrj]

tonight I installed the final software program that I bought at a previous MacWorld Expo. Program is MacSpeech Dictate. I am using it to create this post. Nothing will be edited. It's actually quite good at translating speech into text. The problem is that I'm not actually very used to dictate in this fashion. No I'm not going to go back and correct the word dictate to dictating. He can do corrections however. Yet not he. It. I'll get it working correctly yet.

I could see that it could be rather useful for creating large amounts of text when I'm free associating and then going back and doing the minor editing bits later. I think that if I could get used to speaking freely and really getting the text flowing than I could save a lot of keystrokes. But I can't imagine using it to do pay little copyediting jobs. That was picky not pay.

All in all I'm rather astounded at the quality of the voice recognition.

Comments

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Really! I may look into it. My arthritis-hands get pretty angry at me for typing so much. It might help reduce the pain.

[xrian.livejournal.com]

Geeky toy love ;)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I've found Dragon quite good too, but very frustrating for editing.

I'm still not good at just speaking ad lib into it, but if I have a hand written draft or even just random notes, that works quite well.