http://www.itwriting.com/blog/323-tried-vista-speech-recognition-yet.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/323-tried-vista-speech-recognition-yet.html/comment-page-1#comment-34580 Matt Nicholson Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:19:57 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=323#comment-34580 I spent some months several years ago using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, rather than the keyboard, to write magazine articles. After a day or so it was exhibiting remarkable accuracy, although it did not prove noticeably faster than using the keyboard - probably because I can (almost) touch-type. However what I did find, and what eventually stopped me using it, was that my writing style changed when moving between voice-recognition and typing. Why this should be I don't know - perhaps it's down to differences in the way we express ourselves in vocally and in print. I spent some months several years ago using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, rather than the keyboard, to write magazine articles. After a day or so it was exhibiting remarkable accuracy, although it did not prove noticeably faster than using the keyboard – probably because I can (almost) touch-type. However what I did find, and what eventually stopped me using it, was that my writing style changed when moving between voice-recognition and typing. Why this should be I don’t know – perhaps it’s down to differences in the way we express ourselves in vocally and in print.

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