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Training My Dragon

1/10/2015

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   My Christmas present to myself this year was a Dragon Naturally Speaking dictating system. My plan is to use it to get my out-of-print books into digital format, ready for uploading as e-books. It’s really a lot faster to read in yellowed paperbacks set in 8 pt. type than it is to keyboard them in!

   That said, I don’t think I could stand to compose on my Dragon, because until it gets used to my voice, it’s very distracting to pay any attention to the words on the screen.(Not as distracting as my cat jumping onto my laptop, though!) I don’t peek until I’m ready to start editing. I’m still learning the punctuation commands, and teaching it my characters’ names. I’m amazed that it gets words like “eldritch”, but a lot of its best guesses are absurd. On the plus-side, it spells better than I do!

   The photo here is not my actual Dragon, but my Garden Dragon, which is wintering under my Christmas tree. That’s my collie, Misty, snuggled up with it.

   First book up will be The Wizard’s Shadow.

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