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Speech to Text Engines

Thu Sep 24, 2009, 5:13 PM
I'm sick of typing all the time. Sure, with a StT engine the voice will get tired but at least my hands will have a break and be able to sit back until basic formatting comes in.

According to the grapevine, the best option is programs based on the Dragon engine, but those are far from my broke-ass-poor-student budget will allow me, as the prices for their Mac version are around AU$290... and I still need to fix the internal superdrive on the MacMini.

I might as well resort to piracy! I really can't keep typing as much as I do and expect my hands to be serviceable in a decade. Unless people manage to find a way to restore the health of joints and tendons, I need to nut out something like a StT engine for my computer.

Anybody know of a good legal alternative? Any ideas? Even the paralegal ones?

  • Mood: Speechless
  • Listening to: Bridge of Sighs - Opeth
  • Reading: in-between the out-around of an up/down
  • Watching: 'round the world spinning
  • Playing: the fool among tools spun around spools
  • Eating: Soup-Beans-Bread-Oat-Yogurt-Avoc-Nut-
  • Drinking: Filtered Water-Tea-Milk-Beer-Juice

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  • Skin of choice: Flexible reptile scales don't measure up like they used to
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:iconshackell:
Sure thing, I gotz a typo-daemon translator on hand.

--
Brecht- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are
Fallout 2 - Destruction of the Enclave erased all trace of President Richardson from history. Now the title of President is used simply as a bogeyman to frighten children
:icontangled-up-in-blue:
Dinner's ready, stop bullying the neighborhood kids and come in already. Later we can wear frosting on our faces like Mrs Doubtfire did so no one will no who we are and we will TP the neighborhood kids' houses and then we can go buy fake tattoos to celebrate.
:iconshackell:
I've delivered a decent enough missive of millinery oriented mandates to the neighbourhood kiddums... Here I come!

Hope there's enough chili and pepper in that mix. If I can't wear frosting I'll be disappointed and settle for shaving cream instead (not the eyes!). As long as our prosthetic mammaries don't catch fire.

TP! Yes! With baseball pitcher expert aim! Shall the tats be henna?

(p.s. missed you)

--
Brecht- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are
Fallout 2 - Destruction of the Enclave erased all trace of President Richardson from history. Now the title of President is used simply as a bogeyman to frighten children
:icontangled-up-in-blue:
I HAVE TO COME BACK TO SEE YOU LATER WHEN I'M NOT SO HYPER XOXO
:icontangled-up-in-blue:
I MISSED YOU MOREZ!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR!!!!!!
:iconinfrunitas:
Mr. Shackell, I hope life has been swell for you since our last chat! He has quite a few methods of contact. Facebook, MSN, AIM, smoke signals, etc. I'll note you his name via note.

--
To twist one purest cause
Into an honest verse,
Itself, a call to angels.
The saddened lips of song that
Kiss away our innocence
From the vile mundane.
~justb
:iconyouinventedme:
hhahah

not that I know of

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an antique arms and armor expert
:iconshackell:
I've been on the lookout. Let me know if it comes on your radar. It's one of those innocuous things that I didn't expect to happen within the lifespan of the band.

--
Brecht- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are
Fallout 2 - Destruction of the Enclave erased all trace of President Richardson from history. Now the title of President is used simply as a bogeyman to frighten children
:iconyouinventedme:
featured you here!

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an antique arms and armor expert

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