The concept of being able to speak your articles and have the
words flow onto the page with ease is quite amazing and I have been
pursuing the holy grail of getting Dragon Naturally Speaking set up for
quite a while.
My mission started about 6 months ago when I first started thinking about the concept of posting articles in mass quantities. I had my old IBM laptop setup to simply run Dragon Naturally Speaking so I could dictate articles. The problem this time around is that the computer kept on crashing and I never got very far.
I started my journey again yesterday on my new Mac computer.
Here is what I did -
1. Had VMWare installed on my Mac. This software creates a virtual machine on any Mac computer so that the user can run Windows on a MAC
2. Had Windows 7 installed on my Mac.
3. Reinstalled my Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 software from 6 months ago.
I immediately started using the software with hopes of cranking out 10 articles in an hour. I was not so lucky. Here is what happened -
1. I spend about 20 minutes testing the software.
2. I attempted to write one article and found that the transcription was not keeping up with my speaking and as I was watching a lot of errors were being made.
3. I watched a video on YouTube from three years ago about the virtues of using this software which said included that the user can crank out a 400 word article in about 10 minutes.
This was a little discouraging for me because I can do a 400 work article through typing in ten minutes and I would not have to worry about the editing process.
I am not completely down on Dragon Naturally Speaking and will continue to train myself and the software to do some work for me but I am not as excited about it as I once was.
Below is a listing of pros and cons around using Dragon Naturally Speaking -
Pros
1. We can speak faster than we can talk so this should be a way to speed up our content production.
2. We don't have to worry about typos. The software is going to type words correctly. It may make some mistakes in words, but it will type the words correctly.
Cons
1. There is a ramp up period. Do not expect that this will be a plug and play solution. You will have to train the software.
2. A lot of additional tools would be required if you do not want to be in a completely silent place. I still have the idea that I will be able to record videos on the street and then run the audio through Dragon Naturally Speaking and have that audio transcribed. At this point in time, I am far from getting that to work.
I still have hope for my relationship for Dragon Naturally Speaking but for the time being, I will continue to type my articles every day, while I train myself in using Dragon Naturally Speaking.
My mission started about 6 months ago when I first started thinking about the concept of posting articles in mass quantities. I had my old IBM laptop setup to simply run Dragon Naturally Speaking so I could dictate articles. The problem this time around is that the computer kept on crashing and I never got very far.
I started my journey again yesterday on my new Mac computer.
Here is what I did -
1. Had VMWare installed on my Mac. This software creates a virtual machine on any Mac computer so that the user can run Windows on a MAC
2. Had Windows 7 installed on my Mac.
3. Reinstalled my Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 software from 6 months ago.
I immediately started using the software with hopes of cranking out 10 articles in an hour. I was not so lucky. Here is what happened -
1. I spend about 20 minutes testing the software.
2. I attempted to write one article and found that the transcription was not keeping up with my speaking and as I was watching a lot of errors were being made.
3. I watched a video on YouTube from three years ago about the virtues of using this software which said included that the user can crank out a 400 word article in about 10 minutes.
This was a little discouraging for me because I can do a 400 work article through typing in ten minutes and I would not have to worry about the editing process.
I am not completely down on Dragon Naturally Speaking and will continue to train myself and the software to do some work for me but I am not as excited about it as I once was.
Below is a listing of pros and cons around using Dragon Naturally Speaking -
Pros
1. We can speak faster than we can talk so this should be a way to speed up our content production.
2. We don't have to worry about typos. The software is going to type words correctly. It may make some mistakes in words, but it will type the words correctly.
Cons
1. There is a ramp up period. Do not expect that this will be a plug and play solution. You will have to train the software.
2. A lot of additional tools would be required if you do not want to be in a completely silent place. I still have the idea that I will be able to record videos on the street and then run the audio through Dragon Naturally Speaking and have that audio transcribed. At this point in time, I am far from getting that to work.
I still have hope for my relationship for Dragon Naturally Speaking but for the time being, I will continue to type my articles every day, while I train myself in using Dragon Naturally Speaking.
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