This semester has been difficult primarily because I’m not really very good at research. I don’t like taking notes. I don’t like the process of reading a little bit and then writing few notes and then reading a few more pages etc. One solution to this problem would be using speech recognition software. Of course, this type of software does not always work the way one would like. Still, I figured it if there were something out there that would work good enough for me to take short notes as I read it would be a real help with the research. It turns out there really aren’t a lot of choices for speech recognition when it comes to the Mac. The one that is available is called MacSpeech Dictate and it is, shall we say, not cheap! Still, I figured that with many many future hours of research to come there might be a good investment. As for how well it works, all I can say is that I am very impressed. As a matter of fact this entire post was written using MacSpeech Dictate.
November 19, 2008
MacSpeech Dictate…
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I was going to say, either you turned on spell-check, or you used some expensive speech recognition. I guess it was the latter.
Comment by Anthony Martin — November 20, 2008 @ 8:47 am
I was very impressed with both the speed and accuracy of MacSpeech. Nothing is perfect, but given this level of performance it will be more than powerful enough for my purposes. Who knows, maybe I’ll just speak the entire paper.
Comment by Aaron Jackson — November 20, 2008 @ 8:50 am
Comment by Captain ArrowJ, Starfleet — November 20, 2008 @ 10:35 am