Naturally Speaking, voice recognition

[#juan]

well-I've had the system for a few weeks now and it is certainly faster than my normal typing. I think the main trick is to slow yourself down and try not to race the computer. At this point I have yet to fool the system or find a word that it couldn't spell. Earlier someone mentioned that I might feel silly sitting here talking to my computer I guess you just get used to it.

 

[Outta here]

I wonder if something like this would be useful in a work setting - I'm thinking it would, and I wouldn't feel at all silly talking 'to myself' at work - I seem to mutter under my breath constantly anyway...

Juan, you mention that it can be trained to punctuate - can it also format?

 

[jenn]

I tried something like this years ago.... I was impressed but it had a few too many bugs in it for my liking...but this was at least 10 yrs ago so I am sure they have come along way since then....

 

[karrie]

I'm glad it's working for you juan. My next carpal tunnel flare-up may necessitate something similar.

 

[#juan]

I wonder if something like this would be useful in a work setting - I'm thinking it would, and I wouldn't feel at all silly talking 'to myself' at work - I seem to mutter under my breath constantly anyway...

Juan, you mention that it can be trained to punctuate - can it also format?

There are a dozen or so formatting commands that I've seen so far. Capital letters at the start of a sentence are pretty well automatic, as are periods. For commas and quotation marks you just say comma or quotation mark when you want them. New paragraph, new sentence, or any other formatting are just simple instinctive commands that seem completely reasonable. One of the good things is that for "new paragraph", you can say next paragraph or another paragraph and it seems to know what you want. You can do everything without touching the keyboard. My favourite command so far is "scratch that" for erasing something I've said wrong. I have a a tendency to try to speak fast for some reason and sometimes the words come out sideways or something. Another few weeks and I should be quite comfortable with it.