Dictation software – Yes or No?

[Gilliver's Travels]

With so many hundreds of people on NSC producing thousands of posts every year, I'm wondering whether anyone else makes routine use of dictation software. I've been a user of Dragon NaturallySpeaking for donkeys' years, and would not think of typing anything manually nowadays that's more than a line or two in length.


It would be interesting to know if anyone else on NSC uses this or similar software. The mere thought of millions of characters being typed in manually, by hundreds of NSC's finest, day after day, is enough to bring on a severe bout of RSI.


So, dictation software – any views?

 

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[Gilliver's Travels]

Tried microsoft but couldnt get on with having to say the puncutaion, my grammer is shocking so struggle with it, may try again as it must have improved some over last 3-4 years.

Indeed. Speech recognition technology has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years. Dragon NaturallySpeaking far outstrips Microsoft, but isn't cheap. And the Siri speech to text application on the iPhone 4 is simply astonishing – I couldn't believe how good it was, especially considering it doesn't need user-specific training.


This stuff can only get better and better. But how many people actually make use of it?

[Needless to say, this entire message was dictated straight off, without a single error.]

 

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