I suspect that voice recognition probably saved me at least a day or two. A friend just broke her wrist, and I can confidently recommend Dragon. I used Dragon NaturallySpeaking to crank out an 11,000-word policy statement for the TeleRead-Librar圜ity campaign for a national digital library endowment (shorter document here). You may disagree. I’ve been dictating the current blog post, both in Open Live Writer where it started out and in the Web editor of .Įspecially, dictation shines when you’re writing off the top of your head and have a lot to say at once. And if I want to link constantly as I go along, somehow things seem to go faster with regular typing than with dictation. If I’m working on something requiring an extremely precise choice of words, I’ll stick to my keyboard. Not every piece of writing lends itself to dictation.

I didn’t even need to buy an adapter to attach the Yeti to the boom arm-one came with the arm. It not only was long enough, it was also sturdy enough to hold a microphone weighing several pounds. I wanted an arm that could stretch from the table holding the monitor to within an inch of my mouth when I sat in the chair. Long-time followers of the TeleRead may recall that I write in a recliner several feet away from my monitor. The current price of $99 on Amazon Prime seems outrageously high since the Yeti itself sells for $113.

You can search Amazon for microphone boom arms at varying prices, but in my case, I needed the RODE PSA1 Swivel Mount Studio Microphone Boom Arm. And even without that factor, accuracy seems to be better. That way, you can keep sensitivity down enough to reduce the distractions from background noise. Well, yes, with the new tricks in use, Dragon has been worth the trouble even though I’m no slowpoke as a typist.įrom the earlier post, you already know that Dragon demands a good microphone, in my case a USB incarnation of the Blue Yeti. But something else counts, too-having the microphone as close as possible to your lips. A few weeks ago I returned to Dragon NaturallySpeaking-reassured by several books that I could boost the accuracy of my speech recognition if I truly tried.

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