Comments on: On dictating with my dragon… PART ONE https://glendalarke.com/2011/09/on-dictating-with-my-dragon-part-one/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:21:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2011/09/on-dictating-with-my-dragon-part-one/#comment-18809 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:37:56 +0000 #comment-18809 That's reet luv.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2011/09/on-dictating-with-my-dragon-part-one/#comment-18808 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:49:33 +0000 #comment-18808 Dragon Dictate allows you to choose your accent. It even has an Australian option. I actually chose the British one, because I think my accent is all over the place (having lived all over the place) and I figured the UK one was probably more forgiving — after all, it has to cater for the Scots, the Irish, not to mention Somerset, Yorkshire…

]]> By: Jo https://glendalarke.com/2011/09/on-dictating-with-my-dragon-part-one/#comment-18807 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:03:52 +0000 #comment-18807 I tried a Microsoft Word dictation once and really got into trouble because I have an English accent and the system mostly recognised US pronounciation. I never bothered to persevere not being a writer although I still have carpal tunnel syndrome.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2011/09/on-dictating-with-my-dragon-part-one/#comment-18806 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:26:36 +0000 #comment-18806 Yay — thanks for the advice, Alfin. I've been thinking in terms of using common names like "Mary" that DD recognises, and then later doing a Word "find and replace" substitution. But your solution is much more elegant.

]]> By: aifin https://glendalarke.com/2011/09/on-dictating-with-my-dragon-part-one/#comment-18805 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:11:07 +0000 #comment-18805 I have been experimenting with DD for Mac and found that unusual names can be set up as 'macros' of the sort "Type name" where name is a short, distinctive mnemonic that DD can distinguish and substitute the correctly spelled text. Especially useful technique for fantasy names!

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2011/09/on-dictating-with-my-dragon-part-one/#comment-18804 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:26:33 +0000 #comment-18804 Oh, I sympathise. In the new book the family name of one of the characters is Ermine. But in the world of DD, there is no such animal. There are the mines, reminds, undermines Hermines and Irvines, but absolutely no Ermines no matter what!

]]> By: Simon Haynes https://glendalarke.com/2011/09/on-dictating-with-my-dragon-part-one/#comment-18803 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:18:29 +0000 #comment-18803 Hi Glenda

If you're using dictation (Dragon OR windows 7), under no circumstances should you call a character 'Hal'

I've struggled for hours to teach the damned thing the difference between 'Hal' and 'How', to no avail.

In the end I gave up, and my new series will feature a character called 'Fred Correct-This'. That's sure to work!

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