How to train your Dragon

[kaberett]

The other thing I've been doing this week is starting to get my head round using DragonDictate. I didn't end up using it for any of the wheelchair essay, not least because I'm still getting to grips with the editing syntax - altering existing text turns out to be ludicrously difficult at least initially. Nonetheless, have a post that's almost entirely been dictated including the HTML with only minor hair tearing. Go me on skills acquisition, or something; I am going to have to get a lot better at this before I'm willing to write a thesis in it.

Comments

[frayadjacent]

Wow, I am *really* impressed you're able to dictate HTML with DD. I use it for manuscript writing but OMG, so much hair pulling. My current process is handwrite --> dictate --> fix all the errors/general editing.

I did write the bulk of my thesis with Dragon, but again, I edited a lot at the keyboard afterward, including all the LaTeX stuff. Which was not ideal for my wrists, but the best I could manage.

If you're already doing html, though, it must be working better for you! Maybe you enunciate better than me.

[alexseanchai]

you figured out html in dragon

impressed

[davidgillon]

I've had several tries with Dragon over the years, mostly when having much more arm issues than I am currently, and I never really got to the point of achieving anything with it, so go you!

[stephdairy]

When my RSI was particularly bad back in the late 90s I used Dragon for daily sysadmin work. Having a lot of custom Dragon and emacs macros helped a lot. Also, I found that my voice became hoarse with having to break off between each utterance (this was not NaturallySpeaking) and it helped a lot to have a jug of water at my desk all the time.

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