Re: How do... YOU... do... "IT"?

<janis.abens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi, I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking all the time. The main reason is
> that it is so much faster than anything else.. I don't understand why
> anyone wouldn't use it instead of typing or longhand writing. It
> actually works so incredibly well, it's just amazing! Maybe people
> remember trying it when computers were a lot slower, or don't believe
> it would work for them for other reasons. Who knows?

In no particular order:

a) I'd have to spend extra time training it because I don't have an
Approved American Accent;

b) I'd feel self-conscious, knowing that the other people in the house
could hear me;

c) all the other noises in the house would intrude and confuse the
program (my bedroom is next to the stairs, up which elephants are
regularly herded);

d) it would be absolutely impossible to use on the bus, which is where I
do significant amounts of my writing;

e) it costs extra money;

f) I write science fiction and fantasy. I write science fiction and
fantasy with weird names, weird words, and weird capitalisations. No
speech recognition program in the world is going to correctly spell
Litenin Yusyaa, kutkir, tir/tira/tiren, skywain, etc, first time around;
nor when to capitalise Guidon Purple and when not to; some might manage
to spell eleemosynarily, but the problem there is that I don't know how
to pronounce the word myself;

g) my story-telling faculty doesn't work through my tongue and lips; it
works through my fingers. Tongue-and-lips are unsuited to my process
because:

i) when composing aloud I "um" and "er" a lot (which I'd expect to
confuse the program);

ii) when composing I backspace a lot, and add a word to the middle of
the paragraph at the top of the page, and switch a couple of phrases
around, and do all sorts of things that make keyboard-and-mouse so much
simpler;

iii) I just *can't* compose aloud.

Zeborah
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