Dragon speaking
Having recently discovered Dragon Naturally Speaking, I'm now using this application to dictate my blog posts.
I'm actually getting pretty good at this with my times going upwards of 80 wpm. I am having trouble with things like convincing it to understand things like "w", "p" and "m". Pollen although it's pretty cool -- except that "pollen although" loosely translates into "all-in-all". Some of the fun is trying to decipher what the application thought this I said, versus what I really said. The problem being that once I'm about three lines past what I said I can't remember what it was that I said.
At least it's fun for a Sunday afternoon to try and dictate some thoughts down and then decipher what some application thinks you thought you said...
I will say that voice-recognition has made tremendous strides over the last time I actually tried voice-recognition software. At that point I was getting 60 to 70% error rate. With this application, I'm getting about 10 to 15% errors -- which is not that bad.
Everything this post, good, bad and ugly, was typed via voice recognition commands only. I may become obsessed with this new toy.
posted by bisbohemian at 10:38 AM
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darkcoffee said...
It's interesting to write parts of a novel with it. I tried it as an experiment, but it didn't work out too well. This was partly my own problem with time constraints. I decided I'd have to learn a fairly different mode of thinking if I really wanted to write fiction by dictation (although many famous writers have done this using human transcribers). I do, however, often use it to write letters. Sometimes its interpretations of what I say are pretty hilarious and I just leave them in.
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