I debated for a long time whether or not I could use Dragon speech recognition. I tried it once back in the 70s or 80s and it was awful. You had to talk like a robot to make it understand you. I also hate their run-on commercials. <\/p>\n
But I also know that using your hands as I do 24 seven and having a family history of arthritis, especially rheumatoid arthritis, it would be a really good thing not to stress my hands any worse than I need to. S I decided to bite the bullet now that the software has come down in price and get myself a copy. <\/p>\n
I read the reviews. I determined that very likely I would be happier with version 11 and 12, explanation being that version 12 gets too helpful.<\/p>\n
So I got it and a real nice USB mike. and indeed it is a vastly improved software from the 1980 version. I managed to screw up the USB mic within about 30 minutes of use. Jane tells me it’ll work just fine if I just reboot my computer. I don’t know what I did.<\/p>\n
The software is particularly useful for editing. I can send send the cursor through a patch of text and add and subtract words. Unfortunately it doesn’t understand commands like back up and italicize, or even just italicize. Still, it has some virtues. <\/p>\n
I’m not sure I’m ready to let it help me voice control my computer. The problems that could generate are too scary. But a day off from typing is not a bad thing.<\/p>\n
When editing I use my hands to position the cursor. I highlight what I want taken out. I insert what I want put in. And I handle the bolds and italics.<\/p>\n
You control the mic on off by saying or go to sleep. I might want to change that since I write fiction. Also WordPerfect has helps for straightening out spaces between words and capitalizations at beginnings of sentences that make the program work a lot more efficiently.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the first trial is a moderate success. Last time, I trained the program for a week and it still couldn’t work adequately for fiction and wouldn’t let me think ‘story’ because I was too busy trying to communicate with the software. It is important to have a microphone that is intended for voice recognition–fewer mistakes.<\/p>\n
It’s not quite like having Robbie the robot at your elbow to understand what you meant rather than what you said, but this sure is an improvement on 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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