April 26, 2012
Dear Everyone:
As we all know, whenever you install a new software
application (or “App” as they are now called), you run the risk of
starting an adventure.
I actually purchased this
software last year a
little before Christmas. But
there was always a reason not to install it.
At first I was too busy getting
ready for Christmas. Then, after
Christmas, I came down with a cold.
And this was one software that you didn't want to
use with a cold. This software
allows you to dictate, rather than type words, etc.
So I had to wait until my voice
came back.
By that time, I was busy with other things.
Until last week when I decided to
go ahead and install the software. And
as so often happens, the new software messed with the old software.
Suddenly all my desktop icons had
relocated themselves. And there
was a new taskbar getting in the way of the regular taskbar.
By the time I had everything “back to normal”, I
was tired and decided to let it wait a little bit longer.
In the meantime, I had “come down with
shingles”,
and was no longer interested in playing with the new software.
Until this week.
So now I am trying out “talking” instead of
“typing”. It's definitely better
for my back. I can lean back in
my chair and just talk instead of leaning forward and typing.
You would think that just talking would be easy,
like in the original
Star Trek
TV series when a secretary kept crying, “It's typing everything I'm
saying!” But I find that I have
to think it out before I start talking. Otherwise,
the software really will type whatever I'm saying.
And that's not always a good
thing.
As for the aforementioned shingles, things are
slowly getting better. I still
wake up with the “screaming itchies” in the middle of the night, but
live in hope that this will soon subside.
The software spells “itchies” “it she's”.
This is all part of the learning
curve. We've already gone through
a short training session, but it will take time for the software to
catch on. Still, the occasional
correction is more than made up for in that over 90% of the effort is
done by the machine.
We both have a learning curve to go through and
that is all part of the adventure.
Love, as always,
Pete
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