Voice recognition software

[garonne]

I've hurt my hands and can't type , so I'm dictating this with voice recognition software ,. As you can see , it works surprisingly well . you can try it out for yourself online here

Comments

[ride_4ever]

Interesting! (But -- oh dear -- you've hurt your hands. Hope you're better soon.)

[garonne]

Thanks ! in the meantime , I'm realizing just how much I use my hands , and in particular , how much of my time is spent typing as a keyboard...

[swissmarg]

Kewl! Would love to try it out. The language specificity is pretty interesting.

[garonne]

It is , isn't it ? it makes sense once you think about it , because German has very few homophones , but I never really had thought about it before .

[taass64]

how did you hurt both hands?? poor you!! how are you managing other things, like cooking and dressing and whatever you do for work?

[garonne]

In fact it's a repetitive strain injury from too much typing . . . I heard of such a thing before , but never thought I~d get it myself. Though other people have it much worse , from what I read online . if I lived alone I would be screwed , but my husband is opening bottles , carrying heavy things and so on . he can't do my work though , of course , which is a problem ! next week I'm finally getting to see the workplace doctor. . .

[mrua7]

Hope your injury wasn't severe. Get will soon. Thanks for the info on the dictation. Hands free would come in handy sometimes. Will have to give it a go.

[garonne]

Thanks !

If you have a smartphone , apparently it's also available as an app .

[mrua7]

No smart phone for me, Can't afford it. I have a basic little flip phone. My laptop is about as high tech as I can get.

[garonne]

Yeah, same here. Though at least the older style of phones have the advantage that you don't have to charge them very often ! I wouldn't like to have a smartphone and have to charge it every day ...

[tripleransom]

Huh. Maybe the lack of a mic is my problem. I had zero luck with it when I tried voice recog on the tablet.

[garonne]

Actually I didn't have so much luck with my computer's voice recognition either . no matter how often I say open Firefox , nothing happens . . . it's only with this online voice powered by Google Chrome that I get good results . but yes, microphone definitely makes a difference .

By the way, I haven't forgotten that idea to compile links to all the Holmes fic . I think I have your email address . will send you an email about it !

[tripleransom]

Oh, good. I'm still compiling.

It kills me that so much of Geocities is gone or unreachable unless you know the address. I think that's where the majority of the older dead links go, because it was such a popular early site. Even the Wayback machine only has a fraction of the content.