It’s been about a week since I recommited myself to getting use to voice recognition software. I have Dragon Naturally Speaking 10. I got a new microphone. I got a USB type because I was concerned about the sound card in my laptop. I don’t really know what a soundcard is. I just know that the software wasn’t recognizing anything I was saying and it’s improved since then. There will always be some glitches. I’ve not really been using this for work. It’s been a little bit of an adjustment just because I’m so used to typing that it’s difficult to talk in the required style voices. However, I have really been using this for writing my residual income articles. My voice has been going hoarse and I have to explain it’s not allergy relief I need as much as less work.

One of the biggest problems is that I can create a lot of information quickly. This requires me to do keyword research bulk. I guess that I could just stop and do the same amount of work I used to do and then have a lot more free time. However, this has really ramped up my article production.

This means that I spend hours just talking to my computer. The biggest hurdle has been the editing process. For some reason it always thinks that I’m talking about monkeys and then by coaching of coarsening I have really never typed about monkeys before. I really don’t find it to be that cumbersome like a lot of faster typists. It’s gotten mixed reviews with actual writers just because the of the accuracy rate. However, with my typing style I always have to go back and spend at least as much time editing as I do typing. This means that it might take me four days to edit what it took me a day to type using voice recognition software.

However, I am very optimistic about training the software. It probably comes about equalwhen you consider the amount of extra editing that I have to do. I’m talking to a computer though, how cool is that? It’s definitely worth all of the drawbacks just because of the cool factor. Yes, I do own a robot vacuum.

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