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I had high hopes for this idea. Then the software produced this.

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So perhaps not.

Sounds like something James Joyce would write if he was alive today.

reminds me of the spam some spammers try and foist onto my blog :-)

I wonder if you had a computer speak it, maybe the voice recognition would be better:)

You should publish that, Will.

Patti (baconater) wrote: "You should publish that, Will."

I'm worried that no one would differentiate it from my usual output...

Is it different?

It's more poetical. Speech to text learns your accent after a while. I think you have to persist. Boyo.

i could recite the Mabinogion and have a totally surreal piece of text.

It's quite a thought.

Now that's a fine idea!

and out of copyright as well :-)

I've got two Mabinogion pieces in The Tinker's Tales recordings I've done.

But are they intelligible?

Sniff!

Probably, after I asked a Gog for the correct pronounciation of the old game of Gwyddbwyll - which, interestingly, seems to be very close to the rules for the board game Thud

It probably is. Terry P used to research stuff. He did a tangent about a scientists in one of this books which was all about Isaac Newton, but he called him Woolsthorpe which is actually the name of Newton’s house. All very clever, and only recognisable if you’re a science/Newton spud. So basically, it could well be a nod to a handful of people who’ll realise what it is.

I started using this recently. It did have to learn my accent but, phew, I managed to do 30,000 words in a week. I did have to correct the odd word or phrase but I would never have been able to type that many words in 7 days.

Kelly wrote: "I started using this recently. It did have to learn my accent but, phew, I managed to do 30,000 words in a week. I did have to correct the odd word or phrase but I would never have been able to typ..."

sounds like there is potential
but helps if you speak English proper :-)

Jim wrote: "Kelly wrote: "I started using this recently. It did have to learn my accent but, phew, I managed to do 30,000 words in a week. I did have to correct the odd word or phrase but I would never have be..."

Only if ‘proper’ is American. I have a ridiculously BBC accent and my phone hasn’t a fucking clue what I’m talking about. It’s slightly less like wearing a gag than trying to type but basically, if your vocab is wider than a certain amount, it just melts down and starts guessing in polish, or French. My phone puts ‘autre’ every time I type ‘sure’. With speech it’s a tiny bit better but it still guesses in other languages and it’s completely stumped by bog standard words like colander.

30k in a week sounds fab but I don’t have time like that. I’m a touch typist so I actually type close to the speed I dictate plus the punctuation is all were it should be and more of the words are spelled correctly!

Just my two pennorth though.

Touch typist here, too. I had to correct about 5% of the Dragon words when I tried a while back, and I can type far faster than the net time, plus my eyes and fingers catch mistakes as I make them, and we correct in flagrante delicto and when we're done, we're done.

Later, when I can't type, I hope I can speak.

I briefly tried the voice to text on my new laptop. but didn't care for the results

I once had an elderly colleague who could scarcely type at all. He invested a lot of time in training his system, and it worked very well for him. I used it myself for technical reports with good results. For myself, I found that the benefit wasn't the speed, but the difference between 'spoken' and 'literary' English. The dictated reports were a good deal less demanding of the reader, and scored much better on readability indices, than those composed at the keyboard.

But for exactly this reason I would never use such a system for 'Creative Writing'.

Alicia wrote: "... I had to correct about 5% of the Dragon words when I tried a while back ..."

The current generation of systems, utilising 'Deep Learning' technology, should do much better than this.

I expect so, but I find it annoying to have to correct typos I know I wouldn't have made. I still catch the typos I type, most of the time, and correct immediately, because my gaze is on the page, not my fingers.

Handwriting slows the brain down and helps thought, and I find typing does the same thing. Some day I'll probably have to learn to do it with speech/text, but I found speaking slowly for the software, and having to punctuate verbally, awkward.

Do you use it? What's your experience? How long did it take you to dictate satisfactorily?

I find that the act of typing actually stimulates the flow of words. If I was dictating the story, it doesn't come as easily. Mind you, my experience of this was a long time ago.

Darren wrote: "I find that the act of typing actually stimulates the flow of words. If I was dictating the story, it doesn't come as easily. Mind you, my experience of this was a long time ago."

certainly typing seems to help me

My phone writes all the punctuation in longhand, if I can get it to do it at all. Usually if I say comma, it puts one in and then changes it to the word comma afterwards. It doesn’t have anything sensible like an option to tell it that it was right the first time. I’ve not tried the apple version recently. I believe it’s better but I can still type faster! It’s something I’m watching with interest though because at 50 I already have arthritic thumbs.