My work with other people has usually been disappointing. It's limited to a little university teaching and reading graduate submissions in the main. Trying to write with other people is broadly a disaster and I'm in need of getting my own into focus. I've been ill with energy sapped and the exercise I need to take hasn't helped much yet, though the new dog is a real treat when not eating my socks. It's a bit of a new start. Quite a few people write,some very well and This is an invitation to share and perhaps develop work between group members.
I've tried speech-to-text software with dismal failure over the years, once building a monster pc with shed-loads of memory to no effect. More recently, trying the latest stuff on university approval, I found the stuff as hopeless and that it varied with my partial denture in or out. This led me to the germ of an idea,which if any good I should patent before mentioning. I video conference from a small netbook with its own webcam and colleagues use text translation when stuck for understanding. This now works very well, but we obviously want voice translation to prevent repetitive stress injuries from the keyboard. I've seen some old films (silent) with a voice over lip-reading software - the best known are from Hitler's archive. There's a product development possibility in this. I'd like to know whether this makes as instant sense to other ME people as me. I haven't looked into this much as.it spurred me into a sub-plot in my novel and that's what I'll be up to for a while. We could 'write' this 'product development'. I'm partly suggesting this for real but also as a metaphor (maybe) for more developmental writing on our ideas generally. I won't say more at this stage.
