The Carey Adventures

NOTE: The below text was inputted using Dragon Naturally Speak 10 software.  I did not edit the post except for putting this note at the top mentioning that I did not edit the post.  And adding in the links to the product and ProBlogger.  I know the program can do that, but this is a quick, out of the box use as in…..I didn’t read the instructions.  Enjoy!!  Kinda.

Sometimes I can be a bit impulsive, I admit it. Take for instance this blog post. I am writing or rather dictating the whole thing using speech recognition software. I just got the box today from Amazon and was rather excited and generated start right up. I’m going to leave this post as is with no edits to show the accuracy that can be achieved with simple out-of-the-box first run no training was recognition software.

But first people interest about was recognition software was supposed to Pro blogger. That should read a post on Pro blogger. As you can see sometimes I’m having problems with this program but all in all quite honestly it’s a lot more accurate than programs I’ve used in the. And to give the program some credit I’m running this on a fairly old machine, like four or five years old.

At first it’s a bit daunting and sitting here in my office staring at a computer and an expected to just hold a comfort station. A HHHHH, that should be a conversation not a comfort station. He could see how this can get rather humorous very quickly. Imagine a guy with one of those headsets like I’m working in a call center in trying to think of what to say any meaningful way. Because he is going to take my brain sometime to learn a different way of doing this rather than just typing everything out. When typing I have the time to talk my thoughts before they come out my fingers, but with voice recognition things have to be formed for I see the. Before I see them. Before I see them. Before I say them. Yeah I can see us could take a bit of training to get the Peter used to my voice. To get the Peter used my voice? No no no no. That’s supposed to be “get it are used to my voice”. Nope let’s try this again. To get the computer used by voice. To get the computer used to my voice.

I can see it’s also to take me somae time be used to speaking normally to the computer and hoping that catches up. It actually is keeping up quite well but there is a little bit of a delay and if I try to read what’s on the screen while I’m talking that I can see that’s going to be a problem. If I turn away and just look into the room I could have much more of a conversational tone without actually knowing if the computer is missing about one little thing here or one of their. I think that’s the key to making any voice recognition software work for me at least as I have to look away from the screen because this paragraph is going a lot quicker but I’m not sure how accurate it is to look and see.

Okay looking back at the screen now I can see that there’s a little stickier and a little mistake there, but seriously if I look away from the computer and to speak in a normal tone and a normal conversation not getting into any kind of ranting and work on my enunciation alone which needs help anyhow, I try to remember the punctuation, this program seems I can work quite well for doing simple dictation.

I can see that I’m going to need a different headset is the one that came with the program while it does work is a bit annoying. Whoa! Okay two things. Number one I just figured out how to correct words and hopefully make this program learn my voice that faster. Number two it has the word Whoa in its dictionary. Okay, now I’m starting to get the hang of how to correct things and make it work a little better. Really, there is no reason for me not to use the keyboard. Although the more I started using this program the more I can see its use in being a program. No wait. I meant, well. Nevermind. Correcting is actually quite easy but this headset is still pinching my ear is way too much. And just in the course is one blog post he needs to speaking clearly looking away from the computer and using a conversational tone the accuracy increasing as the post goes on.

While I only purchased the standard version of the program there is a feature with the next version of that allows for using a digital voice recorder to carry with me most everywhere I go. It’s my hope that I can use the digital voice recorder as a means of blogging especially while traveling. I think it would free up a lot of time and a lot of lugging around a computer if I could just dictate my blog posts as I’m feeling the same in a moment in a location and then later dump them onto the computer using the voice recorder and have it recognize my speech and go from there. Keep in mind, that what you are reading here is a very basic quick dry run using ran right out of the box without, how do you say reading the instructions? I know the longer I use this program and the more I teach it to recognize my speech and goofy way I talk the better the program will become more useful. One important thing for me to remember, is to add in, a proper, situation, all the time,.? Excellent point— quote quotation quotation marks.

Okay, I would direct out this post for now because you’re probably getting a bit bored. After I get used to using this program of bit more I really do think it’ll be handy writing quick accurate and hopefully meaningful blog posts. Used well I do believe this program can improve my blogging by making it a bit more conversational rather than what comes out my fingers. That’s not to say everything I say has more meaning than what I type it, oh, nevermind again.