Nov 28 2008
A new toy for me…..
I think I am writing the easiest blog yet. Or maybe not the easiest, but the most interesting. The man taught me a new toy tonight that I can use on my computer. I have seen it before just never thought using it. Now that I know I can it will definitely get it’s use. I suppose I should mention just what toying I am playing with, before you get the wrong idea.
The speech recognition on my computer is something I am learning as I type. Or in this case as I speak. It is interesting to say the least. The tutorial is something you have to go through to make sure you learned just what you can do with voice controls.
They can come in handy for someone like me who has problems with multi tasking. This way I can tell my computer just what to do as my hands are busy doing other things. Again get your mind out the gutter you pervs. The only problem I see is pronounciation. I tend not to speak very clearly especially for computer to understand. Once I can get past that ended the computer to recognize the way I talk it will be much easier to dictate.
As for the other things it can do that’s where the fun begins. I can now open almost any program simply by saying open and then the name of a program. I can open my fire fox, the messenger, all my bookmarks, and of my documents and files.
This program would come in handy for someone who has sight problems or is simply better at saying what they want instead of typing. Of course sitting here speaking the words instead of typing them does come with some interesting computer interpretations. Somehow when I said “italic” the computer put lick that. Maybe it is just another way for me to learn how to edit, edit, edit. Of course when I just said that it opened up the edit.
I hope after you read this, you decide to run and play with your speech recognition also. Just remember to use the tutorial and for your first few uses do it without children around. The first time I opened fire fox, it also opened the pop-up add for a porn site.
I think I might like the tool you used for this post. of course I am a West Virginia mountaineer and my speech is far from being perfect. LOL, I may have to get the tool just to see how badly it works for me.