Going through our archives, we came across this great post by Dr. AnnMaria De Mars from August 16, 2016 “you can make anything into an opportunity” that we wanted to share in case you missed it the first time around.
you can make anything into an opportunity.
For example today I had this very unpleasant operation on my phone actually that was my thumb not my phone. as you may have guessed comma I am now writing using a piece of voice recognition software.
It’s a Google Chrome extension. this makes me happy for two reasons. the pain pills are not one of them.
the first reason is that I have been wanting to experiment more with Google Chrome extensions.
At some point we are planning on using Chrome extensions 4 for our game making camp. this is a great opportunity for me to start learning more about how extensions work.
The second reason this is a great opportunity is that I have wondered for some time what I’m going to do when I get old.
I’m just not sitting around knitting type of person. my hand has been bothering me for quite some time. it’s only a matter of time until my other hand starts to bother me as well. So I’ve been wondering about this comma what could I do if I didn’t work.
Now all kinds of people including all of my relatives most of my friends tell me all of the time that I should not work so much. I mention that I did not ask any of these people their opinion? You see the issue isn’t that I can’t think of things to do instead of work. the point is that I like to work and the thought that I couldn’t do it anymore is a bit depressing.
There are a few drawbacks of read and write for Google Chrome which you may have already detected. One is that it has a rather random view of capitalization. I’m sure that if you read this post closely you can identify other drawbacks. for example like Siri it often misinterpret your words. I left most of the errors here so that you could see. I did fix a few where the sentence made absolutely no sense.
I found it works better if you speak more slowly.
So far it hasn’t been too bad. it was super easy to install and I figured out how to use the speech to text by watching 2 minute YouTube video.
On the other hand haha that’s a joke since I only have one hand – it seems like the only way to get the premium features is to be at a school that licenses those at the school or maybe classroom level. right now I’m using the 30 day trial version.
The other problem I have found is that sometimes the microphone just randomly quits working. toggle it off and on to fix Problem.
2 move 2A new line All you need to do is say those words which ironically since I wanted actually those words in the sentence I had to take them otherwise it would have gone to a well you know.
now if you read this you can see it kind of makes me look like a cross between a teenager using text-speak and someone with a very poor grasp of grammar and spelling. however I think that much of that could be improved with practice and getting 2 no the software better. we’ll see if with practice the voice recognition can be accurate at a faster speed because this slow pace is pretty annoying. the invisible developer just told me that I sound like a bit from Find old radio show called the slow talkers of America.
New line I also think it would be really really difficult to write code using this with all of the special characters required like square brackets and curly brackets parentheses etcetera etcetera.
After a few weeks tough trying this out I’m going to check out dragon I have a friend who is visually impaired who uses that so I’m going to ask her 2 show me because I’m sure she knows all of the special features as I believe she even used it to write her thesis.. You’re line
If you have any other suggestions either 4 Chrome extensions in general or on using Speech-to-Text software please post it and the comments.
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