[rollei_list] Re: OT: Don and His Computers
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:56:14 -0500
At 03:17 PM 3/29/2012, you wrote:
My wife bought me Dragon at Christmas. So far, neither of us have
tried it. It seems to be the answer to the query no one ever asked.
Marc
I'm writing a book, have been for 5 years. I find I type better than
I speak but I do use it to get down quick thoughts.
I've been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking for at least 15 years,
starting with version 3.xx and knew the programmers when the Bakers
broke out of MIT and used their government contract knowledge to
start Dragon. It's been through at least 3 owners since then, the
current one being Nuance.
In any case I think it's a great help but I don't try to use it for
anything other than straight text plus period, comma, new line, new
paragraph. Sometimes I say "Open Eudora" but I don't bother with
trying to do all the commands it can do. I use an Olympus digital
recorder, bought with credit card points, for mobile use and it is a
wonderful asset.
Give it a try. The version you have would be the one they advertise a lot.
If you are comfortable with the idea of talking to a computer, I'd
suggest upgrading to V11.5 Preferred to cut down the training
time. Also, let it read all your notes, email, etc., to get used to
the way you structure your text and also to expand the vocabulary it has.
Good luck- It may be a little frustrating at first, especially if you
have to read some of those training files, but once over that hurdle
you will be in fat city. Supposedly with V11.5 you can skip the
training, not sure.
DAW
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