For school assignments and
essays, I use a speech to text program called Dragon Naturally Speaking. Normally, it works quite well, and when I
know what I'm going to say I can fit 500 words in under an hour. The only time it doesn't work, is when I am
sick or under stress. This is because it
changes the consistency of your vocal cords.
Sometimes, I make three or more different voice files to deal with the
consistency changes. Another issue unique
to summer, is the extra noise created by air conditioners and fans. I find it unbelievably inconvenient, because
on a sweltering hot day, if I wish to write I have to turn my air conditioner
off. I experienced a problem the other
day, where matter what I did, the microphone would not pick up my sound. It was quite annoying as I was trying to
finish an assignment that was merely 500 words.
Instead of taking me under an hour, it took me three hours to finish, as
I only manually type 6 words per minute.
I won't attribute all the problems I face with Dragon to the program
alone; sometimes it is my fault because I run over the headphone cords when I
go to take a break from work. I've lost
so many pairs of headphones that way that I probably can't even count on one
hand. Other times I struggle because I'm
laughing hysterically at something the computer thought I said. For example, I can say something like:
"I need to go to the washroom", and it will register that I said
something like: "I had tea with George Washington". Despite its flaws, Dragon is my a lifesaver,
and I would actually recommend it to anyone that was looking to save some time
in the essay writing department.
Karli
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