I've been trialling the speech recognition software for the last day or so and it's a lot easier and more accurate than I expected. That said I think it'll be better for e-mails and letters them for writing novels - purely down to me and the way I compose. I tend to write and edit at the same time - write a line, decide it doesn't scan, tinker with ( Read more... )

Tribble Alert! A certain tribble, whose name I can't reveal until tomorrow (for cliffhanger reasons:) has been contacted and photographed. Story and pictures will appear in tomorrow's Kitten's Guide ( Read more... )

This is something I've been thinking about for years but never got around to trying. For one, I'm an inveterate polisher - rarely does my first draft of anything last five minutes before I have to tinker with it. So how would speech recognition software handle that? Is it easier to edit with voice or mouse ( Read more... )