Habitually Good

Today I finally decided that I want use speech recognition for dictating my blog posts. I have always known that it is possible and quite easy to do this. But it was easier than I imagined it to be. It takes a while before you get used to it, you need to learn some of the commands and you need to learn how to speak clearly. For example, I am typing this post out by actually dictating it into the microphone. In order to be able to do this right I have had to make several corrections on what was being recognized as I said it.

One of the things I noticed right away is that the speech recognition program inserts an extra space after each period. A similar thing happens when you try to insert new lines or new paragraphs; it inserts extra lines and paragraphs. I will have to figure out how to get rid of this behavior. It’s probably a setting somewhere.

The program is supposed to learn how I speak as I use it more and more. I will have to be patient initially so that I can teach it my speech and it learns how I say my words. Hopefully this will improve its accuracy rate and I will become more productive while using the speech recognition option for dictating my blog posts and for creating other documents in my work.

The only other thing that I will have to learn is how to tell it when I want to give a command versus when I want it to include it as text in what I’m typing. As I said, it was easier than I imagined it to be however it will require a lot of patience in the beginning.  To type out this post I had to spend almost 20 minutes because of all the corrections I had to make.

I will keep giving it a shot and see if it actually becomes worthwhile to use speech recognition in place of typing out the text.

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