Since becoming effectively unimano (c'mon, parse the Latin) I've been frustrated by the pace of typing. If I am fortunate, I can lean back, rest the laptop on my legs, and key mostly with my right hand and a little with my left, moving the keyboard up and down with my legs. Not great but better than one finger poking. But that style doesn't work with my heavier, hotter work laptop in bed, let alone at the office.
This afternoon I finally got to watching the entire TED presentation that I mention on the sidebar. Its not bad, and the concepts presented at TED are interesting. Toward the end he demos a piece of voice recognition software -- not sure, but I think it was this one -- which got me to wondering if that would work for me.
So I'm going to look into it.
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When we first got our computer, my dh was gung ho on learning how to type fast. He found a program that would allow you to just talk while it typed for you, word for word .. although at times it needed a little spell checking at the end. We no longer have the program, and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. Very cool, but I'm not sure if it would work within other programs. He only used it in Word to type up emails or letters.
People always overstate the effectiveness of their product -- Damn you, Viagra marketers! -- but this one seems to be able to handle almost anything that takes text input. I'm guessing you start whatever you're going to write in, then somehow invoke the product to intercept and format what you want to write.
If you notice my posts getting wordier, that'll likely be the reason.
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