Trying something new...
For my birth day, Mark got me Dragon naturally speaking. It is a voice recognition program. With my hands hurting so bad, typing can be hard. It takes a lot of work to train Dragon. I was impressed at first, but now it is taking a lot of going back and fixing about half of the words. If I say too many words at once, it usually messes up. And the more words you say at one time, the harder it is to fix it.
For example, I have been working on this post for over 20 min. can you believe that? The more I use Dragon, the better it is supposed to get. It has to learn my voice. Actually, I have had to fix anything in this paragraph yet. Maybe I am just getting better at using it?
I hope that I will have Dragon properly trained before my next round of chemo. They are reducing my dose 5FU, because it causes many hand problems. They will also reduce the oxaliplatin (wow, it caught that word!) Because of the cold sensitivity and nerve pain. They also gave me a prescription for an old antidepressant that helps with neuropathy (nerve pain). Hopefully I won't have any more hand pain as bad as I did two weeks ago. I could hardly lift my fork. But at least if it does happen again, I can still write. I am getting a little bit better at figuring out how best to go about fixing Dragon's mistakes. Sometimes it is better to just delete the problematic word or phrase rather than selecting it and trying to correct it. If there was an error in the middle of a phrase, just delete the whole phrase and they the words before the error then pause, and say the problematic word alone. It is easier to fix that way.
Boy, it sure is slow getting started on this. Back in November when I first heard about Dragon, it was at a writers Association meeting. The president of the Association did a live demonstration of Dragon. Hers was well trained and had far less errors. Hopefully I can get my Dragon trained that well. I have been working on this post for almost an hour. It would have been faster to hunt and peck with my pinkies like I did when my fingers were hurting. Still, it is kind of fun to watch my words show up on the street; even if I do have two say them one at a time.
Okay, time for a test. I am just going to start talking without going back and fixing anything. Let's see what happens. Here we go:
Well let's see if the punctuation can handle things that are also real word were example when I say: what happened exactly. I have colon cancer will look it caught at that time, but if I just talk about my: without the word cancer, it doesn't catch it. I'm special: I have no:. You see, if I go to pay cancer after: it just gives me the punctuation marks. But, if I say: cancer of his work that time, it did not work that time. Let's try again. I do not like having colon cancer. There worked. Did you know that may bring part five years it's messing up… I said grainbrain fart. Let's try that again. If you know that March is: cancer: can there overcome on bargain. Did you know that March is: cancer March is: cancer why doesn't it work? March is: cancer whatever… It is: cancer awareness month. Today was where blue day because blue special color: cancer. Colon cancer ridden it was. The colon cancer ribbon in live blimp blue finally. I this paragraph is miserable to read. Clearly I cannot eat naturally be the week because. I cannot take talk naturally with Dragon yet. Time to go do more training.
For example, I have been working on this post for over 20 min. can you believe that? The more I use Dragon, the better it is supposed to get. It has to learn my voice. Actually, I have had to fix anything in this paragraph yet. Maybe I am just getting better at using it?
I hope that I will have Dragon properly trained before my next round of chemo. They are reducing my dose 5FU, because it causes many hand problems. They will also reduce the oxaliplatin (wow, it caught that word!) Because of the cold sensitivity and nerve pain. They also gave me a prescription for an old antidepressant that helps with neuropathy (nerve pain). Hopefully I won't have any more hand pain as bad as I did two weeks ago. I could hardly lift my fork. But at least if it does happen again, I can still write. I am getting a little bit better at figuring out how best to go about fixing Dragon's mistakes. Sometimes it is better to just delete the problematic word or phrase rather than selecting it and trying to correct it. If there was an error in the middle of a phrase, just delete the whole phrase and they the words before the error then pause, and say the problematic word alone. It is easier to fix that way.
Boy, it sure is slow getting started on this. Back in November when I first heard about Dragon, it was at a writers Association meeting. The president of the Association did a live demonstration of Dragon. Hers was well trained and had far less errors. Hopefully I can get my Dragon trained that well. I have been working on this post for almost an hour. It would have been faster to hunt and peck with my pinkies like I did when my fingers were hurting. Still, it is kind of fun to watch my words show up on the street; even if I do have two say them one at a time.
Okay, time for a test. I am just going to start talking without going back and fixing anything. Let's see what happens. Here we go:
Well let's see if the punctuation can handle things that are also real word were example when I say: what happened exactly. I have colon cancer will look it caught at that time, but if I just talk about my: without the word cancer, it doesn't catch it. I'm special: I have no:. You see, if I go to pay cancer after: it just gives me the punctuation marks. But, if I say: cancer of his work that time, it did not work that time. Let's try again. I do not like having colon cancer. There worked. Did you know that may bring part five years it's messing up… I said grainbrain fart. Let's try that again. If you know that March is: cancer: can there overcome on bargain. Did you know that March is: cancer March is: cancer why doesn't it work? March is: cancer whatever… It is: cancer awareness month. Today was where blue day because blue special color: cancer. Colon cancer ridden it was. The colon cancer ribbon in live blimp blue finally. I this paragraph is miserable to read. Clearly I cannot eat naturally be the week because. I cannot take talk naturally with Dragon yet. Time to go do more training.