Category: Voice Recognition Software

I don’t know how many novelists (or in my case, wannabe novelists) there are out there who use voice-recognition software to write, but I suppose this applies to anybody who works with large MS Word documents. Whenever my documents reach 100 pages or so, Dragon NaturallySpeaking slows waaaaaaay down. Basically, it becomes unusable. I was…

Service Pack 2, an update for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7.0, has been out for a few months (maybe a year; I’m not the swiftest about checking for updates). According to the long list of “fixes” on their web site, it’s supposed to fix a lot of things that needed, well, fixing. The only two things I…

The Sydney Morning Herald published a user’s very favorable experience with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Mobile edition which allows you to dictate into a recorder while away from the computer, then upload your work into the computer, either as text or into a wav file. The author notes that the system only works with “digital recorders that…

Service Pack 2, an update for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7.0, has been out for a few months (maybe a year; I’m not the swiftest about checking for updates). According to the long list of “fixes” on their web site, it’s supposed to fix a lot of things that needed, well, fixing. The only two things I…

I’m one of those people who installs the game/application and starts using it right away. Only if I absolutely cannot figure out what I’m doing will I consider reading the instructions. Yeah, I know, not real smart. But anyway… Since I started this blog, I’ve been trying to become more conscious of ergonomics, not just…