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Jun. 1st, 2012 09:58 pmAs of today I have Dragon available at $DAY_JOB, to general hilarity from my teammates. I'm sure the novelty will wear off eventually, but for now it causes vast amusement to treat "go to sleep", "wake up", "close window" etc as normal conversation rather than voice operation of the computer. :-)
Also, I have already demonstrated exactly why my workload should not yet include any document that will be seen outside the office. I did remember to tell the mike to go to sleep before expressing my opinion of my teammates -- alas, it treated this as dictation and not a command... I am a little disappointed that nobody has yet done the "format C" routine. This makes me feel old, for I am old enough to *remember* command line interface, and am now feeling my age.
It does lead me to think that it's time to start budgeting for a replacement for Thinkpad. Thinkpad is a solidly built and specced machine (it's an IBM Thinkpad, duh), but it's also 6 years old, and Dragon is hugely resource-intensive. Dragon is noticeably faster at recognition and able to handle natural language commands on the work machine, even though I've barely started training it.
This may be in part down to the mike -- my home copy has an in/over-the-ear bluetooth headset, which is prone to drifting out of alignment. The one at work is a USB headset with headband, and seems to have better sound quality. The bluetooth's very convenient for some things, but I'm seriously considering buying my own one of the model that work supplied.
Also, I have already demonstrated exactly why my workload should not yet include any document that will be seen outside the office. I did remember to tell the mike to go to sleep before expressing my opinion of my teammates -- alas, it treated this as dictation and not a command... I am a little disappointed that nobody has yet done the "format C" routine. This makes me feel old, for I am old enough to *remember* command line interface, and am now feeling my age.
It does lead me to think that it's time to start budgeting for a replacement for Thinkpad. Thinkpad is a solidly built and specced machine (it's an IBM Thinkpad, duh), but it's also 6 years old, and Dragon is hugely resource-intensive. Dragon is noticeably faster at recognition and able to handle natural language commands on the work machine, even though I've barely started training it.
This may be in part down to the mike -- my home copy has an in/over-the-ear bluetooth headset, which is prone to drifting out of alignment. The one at work is a USB headset with headband, and seems to have better sound quality. The bluetooth's very convenient for some things, but I'm seriously considering buying my own one of the model that work supplied.