I'm wondering if the music in the background, it's live guitar music, will affect the ability of this program to work? I'm using the dictation program and it makes some interesting decisions as to what it is I've actually said. We are learning to get along with each other. That is to say, I am learning to enunciate more carefully than I might otherwise.
As regards the last question I posted here, I decided to simply keep writing; cull a little and not burn it all. Of course first drafts do need and get a rough chaffing up that could cause enough friction to almost set them on fire.
Reading hand written pages into the microphone provides an initial smoothing out. If it doesn't read well out loud, it's likely needing clarification at the least. I also find words missing that I thought but did not write down.
Pen on ink still seems to be the way feeling and less obvious elements are conceived and I need to be careful, while editing, to not squeeze the life out of any of that protoplasmic ooze.
I felt silly not having found the dictation on my iMac sooner, it was hidden in plain sight. All I needed to do was go to the keyboard preferences. Once I chose whether I wanted to dictate offline on via the cloud, I chose offline and downloaded what was necessary, it is a simple matter of putting ones cursor in any text box and hitting the function key two times. Of course I also need to remember not to say anything I don't want typed into the box in question. Ahem, clearing her throat, she wondered whether this tool would make new paragraphs on command?
Yes, it does.
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Pen on ink still seems to be the best way to write, but unfortunately my hand writing has gone from bad to worse, so the key board is my new saviour.
Diction can be funny, when you don't enunciate clearly! Good idea to write and read aloud to see how your writing flows, it's a different way and I think probably beneficial to improving your work.
I am amazed and admiring, that you are using this tool!
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