Give it a rest. Find something better to do with your time. Maybe look for
a job or volunteer your time to the elderly.
"Mark Licetti" <> wrote in message
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>
> I am ashamed of myself, for what I did recently
> to my loyal Dragon NaturallySpeaking
> speech engine.
>
> To properly suffer penitence, I feel I must offer
> myself up to one of andy t's long tirades.
>
> ...y'know, where he interminably carries on about
> the really important things in life, such as minor
> spelling errors.
>
> Confession is good for the soul, so here is the
> shameful description of what I did to the loyal
> Dragon engine.
>
> I dictated my speech into the $200 version of the
> Dragon engine, but not just any speech.
>
> Complex medical terminology, such as:
> "perioperative transesophageal echocardiography"
>
> Shameful, because the $200 version of the Dragon
> speech recognition software was never designed to
> handle such complex jargon.
>
> My dictation was roughly 600 words, roughly 1,479
> syllables, which took me 7 minutes to dictate.
>
> If all the words were one-syllable words, that
> would be a dictation speed of 211 words per minute!
>
>
>
> Here is the kicker about my shameful act.
>
> Perfect 100% text, no correction needed !!!
>
>
> Keep in mind that if I slipped up by dictating a
> wrong word, Dragon would faithfully convert that
> "wrong" word to text, and I would have a glaring
> text error.
>
> The complete 600 word text result of my shameful act
> is in the post immediately following this post.
>
> Okay "andy t", I am ready to be admonished.
>
> Mark-
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