It’s just as I suspected. I speak machine.

While most people get frustrated talking to interactive voice response systems on the phone, I’ve never had any problems making myself understood to them. Perhaps my voice is naturally perfectly calibrated to the necessary sound patterns? Who knows. But it comes as no surprise to me that dictating into my new speech recognition software feels just as normal as, if not even more comfortable than talking to a person. I absolutely love it! Finally I can give my poor abused hands a break.

The software is called MacSpeech Dictate and it’s built on top of a licensed Dragon Naturally Speaking core. So far I’ve dictated an email, chat session, notes, and this here blog post. It does get stuck on homonyms every now and then. And I have yet to train it to recognize names. It’s my favorite thing of the moment! Next month I’m going to be doing a lot of writing so this will come in very handy. Wahaha. Get it, computer? It’s called a pun. Exclamation point.