I'm dictating this blog post.  I'm using my Gmail account online.  This is the first time I've tried this and so far things are not working as I had hoped.  Dictation of text works perfectly, and I seem to be getting much better at this.  However using voice commands to surf through the web is not very easy for me at this point, as they dictate this I'm sitting in my office which desperately needs to be cleaned.  Bella, my cat is curled up asleep in her little cat bed, which sits on my desk.  She has almost outgrown her little leopard spot bed.  However, the little bed fits puppy Xena perfectly when she's driving me crazy and won't let me work.Xena is not as good at curling up as the cat is.  But she's learning.

Accuracy is not quite as good yet on the Gmail application.  However, I was just able to train the application to say, Tina completely through voice control.  As you can see still gives me Tina somes times instead of Xena.I guess use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking is not as seamless across all programs as they currently advertise.  However, I've tried speech recognition software almost every year since 2000, and this is the first year that I have actually found it fairly useful.  It helps that I'm motivated to get the software to work because of the way I must now limit my time at the keyboard and mousing due to to the dissertation shoulder.

I'm leaving in all of the mistakes or as many as I can tolerate.

I see from the preview that I still haven't gotten the photo embedded in the post that I am going for.



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