Vocie recording?

[farad]

This has come up a couple of times on Daybook (Van's had some really good comments about the same program that is mentioned in this article, Dragon Naturally Speaking - and, seriously, who can't get behind a program with Dragon in the title??).

Elizabeth Craig, however, suggests using using one of these programs as a writing tool, to get stories down, especially, as she suggests, when " The story doesn’t cooperate. Your schedule goes haywire with unexpected stuff popping up.  Kids come home sick from school.  There are activities all hours of the day and night." 

Her suggestions are good, especially her quote from Katie Ganshert about one of the other advantages of the recorder:

"The beautiful thing about this method is that it completely silences the dreaded internal editor.
There’s no back space. There’s no flashing cursor. There’s no blank page. There’s no critical little man sitting on your shoulder, reading each sentence while tutting and shaking his head.
There’s just a red record button."

What's not to love about it, especially if it transcribes? 

So - any writing today?  I am working on editing a few things which means not a lot of words but a lot of thinking . . .

Comments

[thaccian]

Back when I was dissertating, I often used a small, hand held digital voice recorder to capture sudden thoughts, sentences, paragraphs, tangents, etc. that sprang to mind during all sorts of odd moments. It was much less frustrating than scrambling about for paper and something to write with, and for me it did create a freedom from the blank page and written word that was useful.

The benefit of course with programs like Dragon is that it does also transcribe. . .sweet. I had to sit down at the computer and transcribe my ramblings from the recorder, but for me that turned out to be a nice editing step. Sometimes what I thought (on the move) had been a brilliant idea or passage, proved to be dreck in the playback, while the odd, disjointed, half formed mumbling sometimes opened up whole new insights.

[farad]

yeah, I've used a recorder, also, and the transcribing part is good for editing - though I got burned out on it when I was having to transcribe recorded interviews and the like for work. Though maybe I should go back to it for writing . . . it might be easier to hear the dreck and change it than to see it already in written form. *G*