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I have been meaning to try Dragon for probably a decade now.. one of these days I probably should.
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07-21-2012, 08:09 AM | #168 |
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HRM looks like LSB is windows only... therefor it is no good.
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07-21-2012, 09:57 AM | #169 |
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I think if I had to use type-writer mode, or Write or Die, in order to write then I'd give up and find another hobby. Writing's something I do because I want to, not because I want yet more deadlines to meet, and that means getting involved in what I'm writing. When it's going well I have still managed to produce a reasonable volume over relative short times even using my continuous rewrite approach.
I've never used Dragon (I do have an old copy around here that came with WordPerfect, but I never installed it), though I do remember back when I was using OS/2 and tried it's voice feature. I was most disgusted when my computer would willingly obey one of my friends but mostly ignored me! Needless to say I told it where to go. |
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Pretty much feel the same way, but silly me put my own deadline in place by posting in my prior books "Book 4 due out on such and such date." Well I did not put a date, stuff like "Late 2012" but still... should rethink that as I am behind now LOL. |
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07-21-2012, 07:52 PM | #171 |
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Re: Voice Recognition Software
Hi all,
quite some time ago, I suffered something of a crash and lost a lot of the softcopy of my work. I had the printouts, so got the IBM product for voice recognition - sorry I can't recall its name, just now - and a headset and spent an hour or so educating it to my voice and pronunciation and it worked very well. Accuracy well over 99%, or far better than my typing. A little more relaxing too. I tried dictating new stories but never warmed to that for some reason; same too with controlling my PC by voice. Then IBM -as IBM has a tendency to do - dropped the development of it and left the market to Dragon Dictate and its successors. Watching old movies, the company Grand-Pooh-Bahs have a dictation machine or a gorgeous secretary that they give dictation to (who always seems more intelligent and better organized than her boss), so for some people it works. Times have changed. Cheers, |
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Also it has been mentioned in this thread, at least once, I think. |
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Back in the day I was madly in love with WinWord, then they upgraded and changed the whole dashboard and everything and it just made me go "Ugh!" As I get older, I find that I get more and more picky |
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Right now you can download Office 365 with Word 2013 and OneNote free of charge - on a trial. It is Microsoft's new "Cloud Computing" development. It works quite well. The trial will last until sixty days after the official release of the software - not expected until 2013. That means quite a few months of free use. |
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Yes I believe that was mentioned in response to one of my earlier posts. I find it useful for collecting data, thoughts and images related to what I am working on. It is very handy to be able to use the clipping tool to take a snapshot of whatever I am looking at and drop it into OneNote for future reference. I use mostly Word and and Scrivener for creative writing, OneNote as a gigantic cork-board. It helps to have a second, large, hi-res screen while you are working.
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I still miss the outliner module from Symantec GreatWorks. You only needed one app to do both good (for its era) word processing and great notetaking, and you could use Apple File Exchange to translate into or out of any document format you needed.
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Hi Freeshadow,
indeed it is. I recognize the title, though would never have dredged it from my memory. Many thanks, Michael P |
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ViaVoice is the sound of shattered hopes in the ears of legions of Linux users and the proof that when a company says they stand fully behind something they truly mean: "We won't screw them yet, we are still in the process of unbuttoning our corporative pants." This is why we linuxers still remember that name. Google ViaVoice+linux and you 'll see quickly.
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