Speech-to-text software makes posting easy

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Speech-to-text software makes posting easy

Postby Freitag » Fri Aug 05, 2016 1:53 am

I just bought Dragon speech-to-text software for the book I'm writing. Holy crap, does it make writing easy! I'm using it right now to type this. For people who post a lot, or tend to write long posts, you should consider giving it a try. It was only $45 on Amazon.

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Re: Speech-to-text software makes posting easy

Postby Nordic » Fri Aug 05, 2016 4:41 pm

How does it stack up against, say, an iPhone. So far that's my only experience with it. Useful at times, especially when my hands are full.

Although I have to say I'm not sure I'd really write that well if I spoke everything. Too fast and it sucks. Too slow and it sucks. (Typing on my iphonenow with my giant fingers is slow and I suck at the writing that results)
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Postby backtoiam » Fri Aug 05, 2016 4:47 pm

Dragon has been around for a long time. I don't remember how long exactly. I played with it in the past when it was a rudimentary system and even back then it worked fairly well. I don't know what it is now but even in times past it worked fairly well. Windows used to have a rudimentary speech to text system in earlier software versions. Maybe windows xp back when computers were still really computers instead of grandiose apps?
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Re: Speech-to-text software makes posting easy

Postby Grizzly » Fri Aug 05, 2016 5:05 pm

I just bought Dragon speech-to-text software for the book I'm writing. Holy crap, does it make writing easy! I'm using it right now to type this. For people who post a lot, or tend to write long posts, you should consider giving it a try. It was only $45 on Amazon.

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Re: Speech-to-text software makes posting easy

Postby Freitag » Fri Aug 05, 2016 5:39 pm

Nordic » Fri Aug 05, 2016 9:41 am wrote:How does it stack up against, say, an iPhone. So far that's my only experience with it. Useful at times, especially when my hands are full.

Although I have to say I'm not sure I'd really write that well if I spoke everything. Too fast and it sucks. Too slow and it sucks. (Typing on my iphonenow with my giant fingers is slow and I suck at the writing that results)


I'm behind the times. I've never had an iPhone, and only recently got a smartphone. So I don't know how well they work. For all I know I just got all excited over speech recognition that everyone else takes for granted. That being said, it works really well. Way better than I would have thought from reading the Amazon reviews. I'm usually tired at the end of the day when I go to write, and if I can make it as easy as just talking I think I can be a lot more productive. I'm absurdly excited about it because I've felt in a rut and been looking for a breakthrough.

Congrats if you can post at all on your phone, I've tried it and I just don't have the patience!
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Re: Speech-to-text software makes posting easy

Postby DrEvil » Fri Aug 05, 2016 6:02 pm

backtoiam » Fri Aug 05, 2016 10:47 pm wrote:Dragon has been around for a long time. I don't remember how long exactly. I played with it in the past when it was a rudimentary system and even back then it worked fairly well. I don't know what it is now but even in times past it worked fairly well. Windows used to have a rudimentary speech to text system in earlier software versions. Maybe windows xp back when computers were still really computers instead of grandiose apps?


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Btw: Windows got speech recognition in Vista.
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