Speech Recognition

To Type or not to Type – that is the question!

I am sooooo excited because for the last 2 months I have been in the process of writing my book.  According to the wonderful authority on the subject Glenn Dietzel –

"Writing is the doing part of thinking" and we all have a 'million dollar idea in us".

Now although I don't particularly love writing, or so I thought (I'm much more a Maths girl!), I have really enjoyed putting pen to paper and writing down my thoughts, knowledge and experiences.  It is truly amazing what turns up on the paper in blue when you let the pen flow and don't allow any inhibitions stand in your way!   Glenn advises to allocate chunks of time to 'just write'.  But more on that later.  The purpose of this post is to let all you budding authors out there, or writers of any form; articles, blog posts and so on about a discovery I made last week.

Once the free flow handwriting process has happened you then obviously need to either type out your words into a word doc or similar, have it transcribed for you or you can use speech recognition software.  Now I had seen my sister-in-law Maureen Gordon, fellow budding author and Art Historian (Central School of Art, Adelaide), using a well known speech recognition software to create her lecture notes.  I asked her about it – we are in the recommendation age after all.  She loves it and highly recommends it.

So off I went to the local big computer store to find the recommended software to be almost $300, wow!  While I was reading the package, a kind and observant lady came over to ask me if I knew there was 'free' speech recognition software on Windows.  Her father is also writing a book and a friend of his told him (recommendation age …) just before he handed over the $300 for same software as I was about to.  

I immediately came home and low and behold after doing a search on my hard drive, I not only found the 'free' speech recognition program, but also tutorials on how to use it, amazing and so much fun.  I have asked many, many friends and colleagues if they know about this and it's a well kept secret, well until now that is.  I just know that you can't wait to go tell all of your friends about your new discovery and are itching to blog about this post or hit the Tweet button above!!

So hit that 'Start' button and do a search for 'speech recognition' and within 20 minutes you can be typing your own blog posts, or next best seller, while doing the dishes …

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