Judy AndersonToday's work computer nightmare: whenever they did last night in the windows update broke dragon.
So I'm using windows speech. Which is almost good enough, but has a fatal flaw.
However, when I started it up, it said "windows speech is being phased out, would you like to try windows voice access"
So I tried voice access. It is slower by a lot, does not seem to remember the new words that I try to add when I do correction, puts up an obnoxious title bar that wastes screen real estate, and the correction dialogue is almost as useless as the one in windows speech.
So I guess I'm using windows speech until I learn how to unbreak dragon. (The IT people at an idea about that, which I am pursuing.)
Bill Fellows@nosrednayduj Now I'm super curious, do you code with voice assistive tools or is it more for documentation/email/etc?
@billinkc I use it all for email and stuff. Secretly, though my job title is software engineer, there's really a lot of documentation, customer support, training, etc. and the amount of actual coding I do is consistent with the amount of keystrokes that my fingers can type in a day.
dstu@nosrednayduj @billinkc this was my situation in my early 20s (which was about 20 years ago). Dragon let me keep working, since the most important part of my job was basically acting as a help desk, and that's readily done by dictating E-mail.
@trurl @nosrednayduj great, sincerely thank you both for sharing. While I have no issues at present, I often comment that as long as eyes, brain and fingers function, I can earn a living.
I remember a co-worker trying it in the early 2000s and using it in a busy open office but stopped after people complained
I remember a co-worker trying it in the early 2000s and using it in a busy open office but stopped after people complained
@billinkc @trurl So when I do go into the office, there's like a white noise thing going on which actually does a pretty good job of making it so that other people's phone conversations, and my dictation, are not a bother. If I stay past 6 PM, it's really noticeable when it shuts down. It's part of the air handler, but I think it's intentional. No doubt that kind of background noise is bad for my ears long-term.