Saturday, February 27, 2010

Dreams Whatever

Dreams whatever
I guess you could say my title was chosen for itself. Let's see where it takes me this takes me, this is going to be a free writing exercise to the max. I'm not really sure what I'll talk about it. I’ll just start talking since I’m using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I want to see if it really is faster than typing by hand, I guess it doesn't like my voice because it sure makes mistakes. I can't have everything. It's moving along pretty well though 82 words in five or 10 minutes, no complaints. I wish I could type this fast then I guess it wouldn't be too worried about 500 words for a blog every single day. The crazy part is I found out that Microsoft Vista has the same software built-in so I need to share with that with other people. I was typing along when all of a sudden it decided to change from Times New Roman to Calibri; that made me very happy so I let out a few choice words and it tried to keep up, that was rather comical. This software definitely has a learning curve, and it can try your patience, but at the same time I considered it fun and functional but not if you’re trying to get something done on a time budget. The title itself was a mistake when it misunderstood what I was trying to say so it gave me, Dreams Whatever, so I decided to just let it go and see where it landed. It's been kind of fun in a way watching the misinterpretations of my speech, I read this software had a very high success rate, I'm not sure I believe it. It's got a very long hard road ahead if it keeps screwing up like this. The microphone is so sensitive that it even picks up the keyboard when you're typing and then begins slapping words in willy-nilly here and there as it sees fit. Sometimes it's funny but, it will keep you hopping running spell check and going back and clearing out its mistakes. Just think if I get the hang of this a 500 word blog will be done in just a matter of minutes. I was so busy doing this whole blog thing I missed some of my favorite woodworking shows on TV, oh well, that's the way it goes sometimes. I guess it's going to teach me to talk more clearly because when I talk very clearly and precisely it seems to work fine, so now I don't have anyone else to blame but myself. This is been rather fun and I'm running out of words to finish up this blog. You might even say it's been a little bit too easy. I still haven't found out what the title “dreams whatever” means; I guess that's the software taking over. In a way it has been a dream of mine to buy the software and sit here and freely do my homework. I should've set the timer before I started to write this blog. It's been easy it's been fun and it's been mistake prone.

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