Thanks for your note. I use the command and control, "Speakable Items" for some things but I find it a bit cumbersome to switch from typing very fast, stop, speak and type again. The context switch causes a bit of cognitive dissonance which is a real problem for one's attention. When using dictation software, my mode of input rarely changes so, without the context switching, the flow and, therefore, the efficiency remain high.
[There is a lot written and published about the psychology of attention and, if you are interested, you can use google or scholoar.google.com to find lots of good stuff about it.] On Aug 6, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > Dunno about dictation software but in the meantime you can keep your > physical interaction to a minimum using the speech recognition > features > in the Speech settings of System Preferences. Basic stuff like > opening a > new mail, switching to the finder and such can be done via spoken > words. > It's baked into the OS so give it a whirl. Hopefully somebody else has > suggestions for the dictation software. > > CB > > Chris Hofstader wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a near legendary case of repetitive stress injuries in both >> hands, wrists, forearms and shoulders. For the work I do, I need to >> generate a whole lot of text. I tried MacSpeech Dictate and I find >> that many of its features (especially those borrowed directly from >> Naturally Speaking for Windows) work poorly with VO. Most >> especially, >> I find that the correction related commands are nearly unusable and, >> if one doesn't keep the Nuance engine (the heart of the MacSpeech >> product) well trained it will, like its Windows counterpart, start >> to >> get pretty weird. >> >> This is the only thing that I like better about Vista than OSX/ >> Leopard. The Microsoft dictation engine works great with System >> Access and adequately with Window-Eyes (you need to buy a set of >> scripts from Brian Hartgen to get it to work nicely with JAWS). It >> is >> a really nice little dictation utility that works especially well in >> the Office applications. >> >> Are their any other dictation programs out there for Macintosh that >> we >> know work well with VO? >> >> A few weeks back, I was trying to solve this same issue and I could >> have sworn that I found a collection of podcasts about VO and >> dictation but I can't find them now. If this wasn't my imagination, >> and someone else knows of said podcasts, please send me a link. >> >> Thanks, >> cdh >> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
