Deck: Cyber Curmudgeon - Taming a Dragon

I blogged, in passing, about the difficulties I have using the voice recognition software, Dragon 9.1.

lenrosen has expressed some surprise that I have had so much trouble with the program, citing only a 2% error rate.

I have never come close to that. I’ve never tried to calculate it, but my error rate must be well over 20%, leading to a lot of frustration.

It’s not a matter for harbinger [[[ example: what I said was ‘it’s not a matter of poor hardware’ ]]]

Starting again: it’s not a matter of poor hardware. I have a good computer, with a fast CPU, and lots of memory. I use a good quality headset, not the one that came with Dragon.

My post-stroke speech is not perfect, but it’s clear enough.

I would love to have a 2% error rate. Maybe by the time Dragon 10 or 11 comes out...

Then, perhaps, it will be like Star Trek, where you can say:
“Computer, connect the atmasfras to the Heisenberg compensator...”
with nary an error.