For those of you considering writing a book you’re probably dreading typing 40-100,000 words of text and destroying your hands. I know when I write a book I usually just sit and bang it out until I’ve got the draft finished. That might take a week or four weeks.
What if you could make it easy? What if you could just speak into a microphone and have it all converted to text for you – perfectly, with correct punctualization?
How helpful would that be for you?
Have these programs become any better since 2007? I’d LOVE to have a program take down all I said. I’d probably never shut up.
Anyone using Dragon Naturally Speaking? Carnegie Mellon University’s Speech Recognition S/W program? Something else? Did Windows 7 come out with something that works?
The Dragon system is expensive – the professional version is $900 USD. My nightmare is that it will be just marginally better than the Windows Vista the guy is using in the video.
I’d throw that shit – computer and all, right through a closed window and not even regret it. Things that don’t work after I paid for them and was told they work – get me all unibomber.
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