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Re: Hi, Jay. Me too!
posted by
2902
on February 10, 2012 at 9:02 PM
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Re:As usual, I am clueless. What's Dragon?
posted by
2902
on February 10, 2012 at 9:01 PM
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I thought about getting dragon installed but I'm afraid of fire.
posted by
UtahJay
on February 10, 2012 at 8:44 PM
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I vaguely remember them but as technology moves along I believe there will be even greater impovement! sam 
posted by
sam444
on February 10, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Re: Personally, I wouldn't trust a dragon with my writing businees,
but do as you think best. I find them inconvenient pests with all that fire-breathing and treasure-hoarding kind of thing. Guests hardly ever return. Had to rent a knight to get rid of it. Toes okay?
posted by
2902
on February 10, 2012 at 1:59 PM
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Re: Re: Well, it handles the calls themselves just fine-
annicita - it just goes a step too far in trying to make a voiced version.
posted by
2902
on February 10, 2012 at 1:54 PM
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Re: Well, it handles the calls themselves just fine-
posted by
2902
on February 10, 2012 at 1:52 PM
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WEll I can tell you something Bob since I have had Dragon only a couple of weeks it will spell words I would not normally use like onomatopoeia or Bobsyouruncleorhemighthavebeenyourauntie. I actually think it is because I am the only one using it and if I say cum yer it will politely write.,say that again. MUST RUSH MY TOES ARE COLD.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 10, 2012 at 11:50 AM
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i dont think i would want it announcing my calls
posted by
Annicita
on February 10, 2012 at 10:34 AM
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Re: Where I used to work there was an audio to type program,
Pat, I know the old dictaphones (as an office boy in the early fifties, part of my job was shaving those old Dictaphone black cylinders for re-use), bit I never heard of (a) Kurzweil. What is that?
In a way there's a crazy kind of unexpected inventiveness in those garbled versions that come out! Working with nothing more than we give it, it comes up with something pretty original. Like there's a mimic in there mocking us sometimes.
posted by
2902
on February 10, 2012 at 5:18 AM
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Where I used to work there was an audio to type program,
and at times I tried dictating to Kurzweil, or having it say aloud something I had typed. I tried it as a time-saving method. I laughed so hard at some of its suggestions and was so distracted I had to go back to the old faithful Dictaphone.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 10, 2012 at 5:01 AM
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