Okay, one of the worst things that can happen when trying to get a post written is that my dictation software decides that it just wants to dump over a decade of accuracy training and just not work anymore. It is a pain in the ass because I pretty much have to retrain it to understand everything that I have ever written. And since a lot of what I write isn’t in English, a really big pain in the ass.

One of the benefits of using the Dragon software is that you can upload documents that you written and it is allegedly learning from them. So I end up uploading things from the McGinnis series, Kai Gracen series, a couple of Sinner’s Gin, and a few others. All in the hopes that it will recognize things like the Sidhe words for black dog. Apparently the software does not remember pronunciation so I am going to have to go in and train it.

I really don’t want to spend an entire weekend teaching a piece of software how to pronounce words when I’ve got other things to do but apparently that is going to be my life.

Why do I use dictation software? Because it does go faster than typing and it saves my wrists.

This isn’t a cheap software. It’s about the price of a decent laptop but for the long term, it is a really good investment. It does help me write faster and with a greater accuracy because my fingers sometimes can’t keep up with my brain and things get confusing.

The retraining is necessary but it sucks. Still, the software is a great tool and puts up with a lot of my shit.

And that’s all you can really ask for from an application.

Now if it would only hear me when I give it the command to add a period to the end of a sentence.

Oh… and if you’ve made it this far in this very boring post, have you ever found the Dragon One Off story on this site? If not, here’s Tatsu.