I really like this map! (Thanks, B.) Super interesting. From mentalfloss.com. Image credit: Ben Blatt/Slate. Also, for them that’s interested, the other day, to my astonishment, I wrote two and a half pages. Or, as I emailed to a particular group of interested friends, “tuna half pages.” There are certain dictation errors that I encounter… Read more »
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Dragon for Mac: No.
I try not to make my blog Whinge Central, but this information might actually be helpful for some of you out there. So: I’m sure Dragon Dictate’s latest version of dictation software for Mac users (by Nuance) is useful to someone with some job, but I’m sorry to say that if you happen to be… Read more »
Sleep, Pretty Darling, Do Not Cry… and Other Thursday Randutiae
Happy Pan-Universal Be Who You Are Day! Someone who uses voice recognition software and draws should start a VRS comic strip. The objects that appear suddenly in my scenes because my VRS has misunderstood me are visually amusing. I just dictated the line, “‘I will,’ she said with a sob,” and my VRS typed, “‘I… Read more »
Bad Days, Voice Recognition Software, SNoQ, and Benedict Cumberbatch
Wednesday was one of those days where you wake up and it’s so dark outside that you feel like there must’ve been some mix-up with the sun. And it never gets any brighter, and also your hands hurt, but you have to do a lot of computer work anyway, and because your hands hurt, you’re… Read more »
I Choose This As the Subject Line
When I’m really, really tired and trying to juggle too many balls (metaphorically), sometimes my short-term memory completely vanishes. For example, I’ll be walking along the street, see the cash machine, and think to myself, “Maybe I should get some cash just in case I need it at the airport tomorrow. Should I? Shouldn’t I?… Read more »
And Indeed There Will Be Time
If only it actually were true, as J. Alfred Prufrock says, that there will be time for a hundred visions and revisions before the taking of a toast and tea. In my experience, a single revision can take months. :o) As I recently promised I would do, I have been dictating *everything* with my voice… Read more »
Checking in with Some Monday Randutiae
Last week, while stuck in traffic on I-95 in preparation for being extremely late to my trapeze conditioning class, I noticed that the leaves are starting to change. Hooray! I’m reading a mystery by Ellis Peters called The House of Green Turf. I’ve been enjoying it from the first sentence: But for a five minute… Read more »
A Voice Recognition Software Demonstration
Note to those who are reading this post in an e-mail, or anywhere other than my blog actual: if you don’t see the short video immediately below, this post isn’t going to make a whole lot of sense to you. You might want to read this one on my actual blog, which is here. Press… Read more »
Authors, Appearances, Anxiety, and Dropping One’s Pants
I’m annoyed that my voice recognition software recognizes Ludwig Wittgenstein on the first try but doesn’t recognize Miss Marple. Humph. (To be fair, it doesn’t recognize Lord Peter Wimsey, either. But nor does it recognize Luce Irigaray. But it recognizes Jo March. But not Gilbert Blythe. AARGHHH!) (Incidentally, my favorite VRS kerfuffle recently was when… Read more »
