Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Voice Recognition Software

I like to write my thoughts out in an outline before I write anything of any length. That's especially the practice of those attorneys who are not great typists.

Voice recognition software lets you talk into a microphone (often something worn on the head) which then "writes" into your word processing software. Some people use it to write everything, and can sound kind of zany when using the commands the software offers to make corrections ("Scratch that. Scratch that!") or make capital letters ("Cap that!").

However, if you just want to use it to write letters or quick notes to yourself, it'll at least save you some of your secretary's time. Which they can then use to scan documents in using your new scanner! Which is tomorrow's topic.