I've
just gotten a new toy called Dragon Naturally Speaking. I'm just
beginning to learn how use it but it feels much different from typing.
It is a dictation program that has you speak into a microphone to
compose text and give commands. It works best when you speak in clear
complete sentences, saying the punctuation out loud. I compose sentences
mentally either way, speaking or typing. But I find it much easier to
stop in the middle sentence and change the grammar when typing mailing
using the dictation program. I find myself closing my eyes to keep track
of what I'm saying. I'm still struggling to learn the software, and it
is different in feel from anything I've used before. I also find myself
so excited sometimes, it seems like magic as the worst just appear on
the screen, that I have a hard time concentrating, not on the process,
but on the document I'm composing. The dictation program does
occasionally mis-hears words, and I'll be editing all these all the
posts I make with it extensively. But it will be interesting to see how
using the dictation program changes my writing style.
I hope this program helps you think about what you say before you say it. My mind does not work that way. Insert foot into mouth.
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