Showing posts with label Voice Recognition Software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voice Recognition Software. Show all posts

Monday, October 05, 2009

Battling Dragons! WITH THE MOST CAREFUL ENUNCIATION


As you may know, I suffer from fibromyalgia. This makes it difficult to write or mouse for long periods of time, and leaves me suffering sometimes for weeks if I do too much.

Some while ago, my very kind sister Ani sent me Dragon Naturally Speaking 7. This software enables the user to speak into a microphone while it transcribes
their words. The idea is sublime. The reality, however is not quite perfect. Despite buying a highly recommended Logitech microphone headset, and patiently training myself with the DNS7 software, I end up reading like a computer on crack. What I could type in ten seconds takes ten minutes to bugger up completely.

Below, I give you my first dictation using Dragon Naturally Speaking 7...

Her Eyebrows
and take her across the room, and saw she was a night of blue. She walked. Its error beneath her seats at the Whitney her at-bat at a but at a at a to a but to the lower than.
The wonderful thoughts of being able to speak and have my words transcribed is somewhat more enticing than the reality that I see before me.
I was walking down the street, the other day. When I noticed a man across from me. I did not realize that he was the one I was meant to see. All is well in love and war. My bladder is full. My bladder is so very full. My bladder is so-so Bucking bucking bull. She could, and at at-bat at to neck, her eyebrows
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I have not given up. I will prevail. But not today.