Elipsa New Kobo (N604) [Elipsa - ed.]

[RowdyRuff]

Does the hashtag #StayTuned mean it has a built-in FM or digital radio? <Ducks>

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

With voice to text, does anyone want to write with a stylus?

People speaking a lesser-known language?

[Calenorn]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

People speaking a lesser-known language?

Doesn't sound like a large market, though.

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

With voice to text, does anyone want to write with a stylus?

Someone who doesn't live alone?

[gibletpie]

I just ordered a Forma on Sunday, so of course there's now an announcement pending. You're all welcome. Actually, I don't need a note-taking device, so unless it comes in at an unlikely $200 USD, I'll be happy with the Forma.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

With voice to text, does anyone want to write with a stylus?

But a stylus does more. You can mark up the eBook. Circle, underline, take notes,etc.

Speech to text is limited in what it can do. Not that it's a bad thing, but a styles is better for annotating eBooks.

[MGlitch]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

With voice to text, does anyone want to write with a stylus?

Anyone who has tried to use voice to text would probably prefer a stylus.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

With voice to text, does anyone want to write with a stylus?

Sorry but I've tried voice to text many times over the decades. Even with the latest and greatest, it's not a satisfying experience even on high end hardware. Ranging from VoiceType back in the mid-90's to the newer Dragon Professional, Otter and Speechmatic, none of them offer the ability to easily convert random speech to text plus their lack of typos does make it more difficult to locate and correct errors.

For non-English speakers, the experience may be different but given the English language's love for homonyms and heteronyms and a grammar that has more exceptions to rules than conformance to the rules, it makes a difficult task even more difficult.

Just to save a Google search, homonyms are words spelled differently but pronounced the same (i.e. to, too, two) while heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently (bow as in the weapon or hair clip or bow as in to bend in respect or the front of a ship).

You can also take a look at 'plough through enough dough to make you cough or hiccough' as a horrible example of what English can do.

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for loose grammar and new vocabulary.”—James Davis Nicoll

[Calenorn]

I know what a homonym is.

I bet you're still not going to write on an eink device with a stylus, are you?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Calenorn

I know what a homonym is.

I bet you're still not going to write on an eink device with a stylus, are you?

The comment was more for the heteronyms.

Been there, done that. Admittedly a Sony PDF only DPT-RP1 and the stylus was handy for marking up pages. I never to use it to write text.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by MGlitch

Anyone who has tried to use voice to text would probably prefer a stylus.

Not this Dragon user. I've been using Dragon's top-level product for more than 10 years now, and it keeps getting better and better. I use it more and more. It's now my first choice for anything longer than a memo, and often even for short messages. Checking for homophones (since homonyms are not a problem in this context) is still much easier and faster than writing/typing by hand.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Just to save a Google search, homonyms are words spelled differently but pronounced the same (i.e. to, too, two) while heteronyms are words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently (bow as in the weapon or hair clip or bow as in to bend in respect or the front of a ship).

Those who do a Google Search will find definitions different to the one you supplied above:

The difference between homophones, homonyms, and homographs

homonym/homophone/homograph

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Not this Dragon user. I've been using Dragon's top-level product for more than 10 years now, and it keeps getting better and better. I use it more and more. It's now my first choice for anything longer than a memo, and often even for short messages. Checking for homophones (since homonyms are not a problem in this context) is still much easier and faster than writing/typing by hand.

For you it may be easier and faster, for me it's is not. Way back in the distant past, I took typing in school. I hated it at the time but it's one of the few things I learned in high school that has benefited me for decades. I can type faster that I can speak and with pretty decent accuracy plus I don't run into issues with words that are not in the dictation programs vocabulary.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Those who do a Google Search will find definitions different to the one you supplied above:

The difference between homophones, homonyms, and homographs

homonym/homophone/homograph

Yes, I should have said homophones instead of the overarching homonyms group.

As for the URL you posted, yawn. Please see: Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs and Heteronyms

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I don't run into issues with words that are not in the dictation programs vocabulary.

My Dragon user dictionary is HUGE for this reason. Adding words to it over the last 10 years means the only time I run into this problem now is if I'm using a mix of different languages in the same text. There's no way I'd ever be able to type at anything close to 250wpm, or even 200 if I speak more slowly than normal, so a simple find and replace for that situation is still much faster for me