Podcasts about Dragon Dictation

I had a whopping good time talking with Jennifer Armentrout about her new book, Fall of Ruin and Wrath, about ApollyCon - which is now almost 10 years old!We're going to talk about the behind the scenes of ApollyCon, her launch title for the new Bramble imprint of fantasy romance, plus she takes questions from some of you about disability advocacy, living with a visual impairment, and what changes she's seen in publishing.Music: Purple-planet.comYou can find Jennifer L. Armentrout on her website, on Instagram, and her Facebook Group JLAnders.We also mentioned:Retinosis PigmentosaThe Wilmer InstituteDragon DictationAnd, I request a humble favor: If you have a moment and your thumbs are not busy, would you be so kind as to leave a review for the show? I used to have a few on Apple Podcasts and now they are all gone! Apple is a mystery - but reviews help other folks find the show. So if you enjoy the podcast and you want to help me reach more nifty people, please review us. Thank you! Join our Patreon for complete mayhem, shenanigans, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I had a whopping good time talking with Jennifer Armentrout about her new book, Fall of Ruin and Wrath, about ApollyCon - which is now almost 10 years old!We're going to talk about the behind the scenes of ApollyCon, her launch title for the new Bramble imprint of fantasy romance, plus she takes questions from some of you about disability advocacy, living with a visual impairment, and what changes she's seen in publishing.Music: Purple-planet.comYou can find Jennifer L. Armentrout on her website, on Instagram, and her Facebook Group JLAnders.We also mentioned:Retinosis PigmentosaThe Wilmer InstituteDragon DictationAnd, I request a humble favor: If you have a moment and your thumbs are not busy, would you be so kind as to leave a review for the show? I used to have a few on Apple Podcasts and now they are all gone! Apple is a mystery - but reviews help other folks find the show. So if you enjoy the podcast and you want to help me reach more nifty people, please review us. Thank you! Join our Patreon for complete mayhem, shenanigans, and more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Matthew Lungren is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Nuance Communications, a Microsoft Company. As a physician and clinical machine learning researcher, he maintains a part-time interventional radiology practice at UCSF while also serving as adjunct faculty for other leading academic medical centers including Stanford and Duke. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr Lungren led the Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI). This interview offers great insight for anyone who is interested in non-traditional career paths in medicine at the cutting edge of the MaML space. I hope you all enjoy! and don't forget to follow us on twitter @themamlpodcast! contact@themamlpodcast.com Host: David Wu / Twitter: @davidjhwu Producer: Aaron Schumacher / Twitter: @a_schu95 Artwork & Video: Saurin Kantesaria Music: Caligula - Windows96. Used with Artist's Permission. 00:40 Could you tell us about your path coming to the intersection of medicine and artificial intelligence? 07:00 What literature are you a fan of? 08:50 Where will the next great American Author come from? 14:00 Tell us about your work with Nuance. 17:50 Could you tell us the background of Nuance and Dragon Dictation? 19:55 Tell us about Nuance products that are offered. 23:45 How much code should future physicians know? 28:30 What is a typical day like as chief medical officer 31:30 Do you have any advice for medical students interested in nontraditional career paths? 34:30 How do you balance clinical practice and industry work? 40:40 What are you excited about most in the next 10-20 years? 44:15 How has mentorship shaped your path? 46:08 What advice would you give yourself at your medical school graduation?

Nerds of Law 93 – Denkoase im Schlaraffenland mit Marc Geiger    Wollen sich Michael und Katharina am liebsten gleich auf den Weg in die Großkanzlei machen? Zumindest klingt das so, nach dem Gespräch mit Marc Geiger von GleissLutz ... wenn jemand mit Prozessen beginnt, Lego hat, und eine Kanzlei im Metaverse ... aber hört am besten selbst!    Website: https://www.gleisslutz.com/de/kompetenzen/fokusthemen/legal-tech.html  Kanzlei im Metaverse: https://www.gleisslutz.com/de/aktuelles/mandate-kanzlei-news/Gleiss-Lutz_Metaverse.html  Digital ThinkTank: https://www.gleisslutz.com/de/kompetenzen/fokusthemen/legal-tech.html  FactTracker: https://www.gleisslutz.com/de/aktuelles/mandate-kanzlei-news/Gleiss_Lutz_PMN_Legal_Tech.html  Ukraine App: https://www.gleisslutz.com/de/aktuelles/mandate-kanzlei-news/Wegweiser_Ukraine.html  Weblaw Forum: https://www.weblaw.ch/competence/academy/veranstaltung/legaltech2022  NoL-Podcast-Folge 16 zu Weblaw: https://www.nerdsoflaw.com/2020/07/nerds-of-law-16-franz-kummer-der-schweizer-hipster-unter-den-nerds/  Metaverse: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaversum  Decentraland: https://decentraland.org  Second Life: https://secondlife.com  No-Code-Plattform: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-Code-Plattform  Lego Serious Play: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Serious_Play  https://www.lego.com/de-de/themes/serious-play  Legal Visualizing: https://jusletter-it.weblaw.ch/en/visualisierung.html  Dragon Dictation: https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html      Subscribe to the Podcast  RSS Feed https://nerdsoflaw.libsyn.com/rss   Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/nerds-of-law-podcast/id1506472002   SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/12D6osXfccI1bjAzapWzI4   Google Play Store https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&apn=com.google.android.music&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Idvhwrimkmxb2phecnckyzik3qq?t%3DNerds_of_Law_Podcast%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16   YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7rmwzBy-IRGh8JkLCPIjyGMA-nHMtiAC   Deezer https://www.deezer.com/de/show/1138852     Nerds of Law®   http://www.nerdsoflaw.com   https://twitter.com/NerdsOfLaw   https://www.instagram.com/nerdsoflaw/   https://www.facebook.com/NerdsOfLaw/   Music by Mick Bordet www.mickbordet.com    Nerds of Law ® ist eine in Österreich registrierte Wortmarke.     

David Sparks is a solo business lawyer in Orange County, California. He’s been a frequent speaker at bar association conferences around the country, including the ABA TECHSHOW, where he helps lawyers learn to better harness the power of technology to make their practices run more smoothly, with less effort. David is a well-known speaker, author, and podcaster (i.e. Mac Power Users, Automators;, and Focussed; podcasts). He loves jazz and is looking forward to participating in the Small Firm Bootcamp where he will be a featured speaker. Omnifocus; - Project & Task management software used and recommended by David Sanebox; - Intelligent email filtering and automation used and recommended by David Basecamp; - cloud-based project management software that David uses to share data with clients and his team Dragon Dictation software - used by David even though the company says it will no longer support the Mac version. Signup for the (now) 100% Virtual Small Firm Bootcamp Want to take your practice to the next level? If you want to make big changes and massively improve your law practice check out my upcoming Small Firm Bootcamp conference - a 3-day online conference for attorneys who want to learn how to better leverage tech (i.e. automation, paperless practice, mobile/virtual practice) to transform their practices. Thanks to The Sponsor Smith.ai; is a superior receptionist service for law firms that also helps you convert first-time callers or website visitors into paying clients. They also offer a free AI Chatbot that provides 24/7 service on your website. Ernie appreciates the superior service they provide to his callers and web visitors, and you will too. And if you’re curious about how a virtual receptionist service can help you take your practice to the next level, check out this ebook. *** EPISODE CREDITS: If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com 

Jon Bloom, Senior Conversation Designer at Google, joins us to share what a conversation designer does at Google, as well as some conversation design techniques used at Google, such as 'grounding strategies'. Presented by SparksSparks is a new podcast player app that lets you learn and retain knowledge while you listen.The Sparks team are looking for people just like you: podcast listeners who're also innovative early adopters of new tech, to try the beta app and provide feedback.Try it now at sparksapp.io/vux Conversation design and grounding strategiesConversation design is one of the core skillsets required to create engaging and effective voice and conversational experiences. UX Mag recently wrote about how the role of conversation designer will be one of the fastest growing UX roles in 2020.But what exactly is conversation design? And what does a conversation designer actually do?This week, we're joined by Jon Bloom, Senior Conversation Designer at Google to find out.We discuss the role, what's involved, Jon's prior experience, the resurgence of enthusiasm in the voice community, as well as some conversation design techniques you can use to start creating engaging conversational experiences.Conversation design techniquesOne of the highlights of the conversation is Jon's take on errors.Within the conversation design community, most people talk about 'error recovery', which is recovering from situations in a conversation where things go wrong. For example, if a user asks for a pizza, and the system says 'what flavour', what happens when the user says a flavour that the system doesn't have? Or if the system mishears the user?Recovering from these situations is typically known as 'error recover', but Jon's perspective is different and refreshing.Jon mentioned that within all conversations, there are no such thing as errors. There is simply 'grounding'.Grounding includes anything and everything the two people do within a natural conversation in order to ensure understanding.For example, if a user asks for a hotel room for Tuesday, the system might confirm with 'Here's the rooms I found for Tuesday'. Confirming that it heard Tuesday is a form of grounding.In the pizza example, where the user asks for a flavour the system doesn't have, the system might respond with 'I'm sorry, we don't have Hawaiian, but we do have farmhouse'.These aren't 'errors', they're natural parts of human conversations and the things we do to ensure both parties are on the same page.We get into some great detail on this with Jon, as well as plenty more conversation design techniques.About Jon BloomJon is a veteran in the conversation design space, with decades of experience working in speech recognition systems, conversational UX and natural language-based human-computer interaction.He created the interface design process for the well renowned dictation system Dragon Dictation by Dragon Systems, before moving to SpeechWorks (acquired by Nuance) to work on conversation design for IVR phone systems and in-car speech recognition systems.Jon then worked at Synchronoss Technologies working on analysing and improving speech recognition systems for IVR phone systems, then moved back to Nuance as a Senior User Interface Manager.Jon currently works predominantly on the Google Assistant and is responsible for making interactions and experiences on Google Assistant as intuitive and as user friendly as possible.LinksFollow Jon on TwitterDesigning Voice User Interfaces by Cathy PearlVoice User Interface Design by James GiangolaGoogle's conversation design guidelinesGoogle's 'error' recovery guidelines (The irony isn't lost on me that Google has called this 'errors', rather than 'grounding'. Although this does include genuine system errors such as speech recognition issues) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Writing through chronic illness and other challenges, with Karen Lock KolpThis writing thing often feels hard. A common text among the three of us (Jess, Sarina and KJ) goes like this: OW OW OW OWOWOWOW. Our brains hurt. But for this week’s guest, Karen Lock Kolp, it’s more than that. Because of a rare tendon condition, Karen does all her writing and online work—and we do mean all—using her voice. That means that when it comes to both dictation and writing through big challenges, she’s a pro, and her advice in this episode was solid gold on both counts.Episode links and a transcript follow—but first, a preview of the #WritersTopFive that will be dropping into #AmWriting supporter inboxes on Monday, September 2, 2019: Top 5 Things to Remember When Writing is REALLY Hard. Not joined that club yet? You’ll want to get on that. Support the podcast you love AND get weekly #WriterTopFives with actionable advice you can use for just $7 a month. As always, this episode (and every episode) will appear for all subscribers in your usual podcast listening places, totally free as the #AmWriting Podcast has always been. This shownotes email is free, too, so please—forward it to a friend, and if you haven’t already, join our email list and be on top of it with the shownotes and a transcript every time there’s a new episode. To support the podcast and help it stay free, subscribe to our weekly #WritersTopFive email.LINKS FROM THE PODCASTThe Solopreneur Hour with Michael O'Neal Joanna Penn's The Creative PennKaren's Dictation Software Choices: Dragon Dictation, Chrome Browser, Dragon's Transcription Button.MouseGrid video on YouTube: How to Use the Dragon MouseGrid (as it turns out, it’s focused on navigating in Facebook with Dragon, but still a great video)It's a Long Way to the Top, AC/DC#AmReading (Watching, Listening)Karen: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado PerezThe Purloined Paperweight, P.G. Wodehouse Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913, Daniel WolffKJ: The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, Abbi WaxmanJess: God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America, Lyz Lenz (Hear Lyz on the podcast here.) #FaveIndieBookstoreJeff Kinney's An UnLikely Story in Plainville, MAKaren Lock Kolp is the author of Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics: Key Tools to Handle Every Temper Tantrum, Keep Your Cool, and Enjoy Life with Your Young Child and 10 Secrets Happy Parents Know: How to Stop the Chaos, Bring Out Your Child’s Good Behavior, and Truly Enjoy Family Time (Your Child Explained). Find out more at Karen's website: We Turned Out Okay. Listen to her podcast here. Her popular episode Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics is here. This episode was sponsored by Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwritingfor details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s Inside-Outline template.Find more about Jess here, and about KJ here.If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.Transcript (We use an AI service for transcription, and while we do clean it up a bit, some errors are the price of admission here. We hope it’s still helpful.)KJ:                                00:01                Howdy writers and listeners. August is basically over. September is here and this is the very last time I can invite you to join us in Bar Harbor, Maine for the Find Your Book, Find Your Mojo retreat from September 12th through 15th of 2019. It's a fantastic chance to get some one on one time for your project with me or Author Accelerator founder Jenny Nash, and then dig in with all your might in a gorgeous setting surrounded by your fellow #AmWriting word nerds, including Serena Bowen, who's going to talk about indie versus traditional publishing. There will be bonding, there will be writing, and knitting and artistic renderings of words of the year and all kinds of festivities and I for one can't wait. Find all the details@authoraccelerator.com/am writing.KJ:                                00:55                Go ahead. This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone and try to remember what I was supposed to be doing.Jess:                             00:59                All right, let's start over.KJ:                                01:01                Awkward pause. I'm going to rustle some papers.Jess:                             01:04                Okay.KJ:                                01:04                Now one, two, three. Hey, I'm KJ Dell'Antonia.Jess:                             01:13                And I'm Jess Lahey.KJ:                                01:15                And this is #AmWriting with Jess and KJ. #AmWriting is our weekly podcast about all things writing, be they fiction, nonfiction, some bizarre intertwined creation, short stories, proposals, essays, long pieces, short pieces. And most of all, the one thing we always are is the podcast about getting the work done.Jess:                             01:46                And I'm Jess Lahey. I'm the author of the Gift of Failure and a forthcoming book about preventing substance abuse in kids. And you can find my work at the New York Times and the Washington Post and recently at Air Mail, which is a new venture by Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair. And that was kind of fun to write for someone new.KJ:                                02:06                I am KJ Dell'Antonia. I'm the author of How To Be a Happier Parent and the former lead editor and writer of the Motherlode blog at the New York Times where I am still a contributor. I'm having a freelancing break while I work on what will be my second novel and my first novel, The Chicken Sisters will be out next year.Jess:                             02:24                So exciting.KJ:                                02:26                That's who we are. That's why you should listen to us. Today, we have a guest that I think you are also going to want to listen to. I want to welcome Karen Lock Kolp. She is a child development expert and a parenting coach with a podcast, a thriving online community, and she is the independently published author of 10 Secrets Happy Parents Know. But we are not going to talk about anything parenty because what we are gonna talk about is getting all that work done because Karen is also a woman who lives with chronic illness. She has a tendon disorder that she'll describe to you later, but it has made her an expert in the use of her voice, both as a podcaster and in dictating her writing, which I know you're all going to want to hear about. And it's also made her an expert at keeping her butt in the chair sometimes whether she wants to or not, and getting her work done anyway, even when it's really, really hard. And that's why you're here. So thank you so much for joining us.Karen:                          03:28                Oh, thank you. It's really wonderful to be here. This is very exciting for me. Your podcast is one of my favorites. It is one of the few that survived my recent digital reset. Yours was one of the few that I brought back in because it's incredibly valuable.Jess:                             03:51                Oh, that's so nice. We survived a purge. That's so exciting.KJ:                                03:56                I purged lately too, although I partly purged just because I get so frustrated with the iTunes podcast app and switched and then once I switched I realized I hadn't brought everything with me and some of it I didn't miss.Jess:                             04:08                I had that moment where iTunes said, you seem to have not downloaded this in awhile. Do you still want to listen? And I thought about it and I said, well, no, actually I'm done.Karen:                          04:20                That's really cool. I did that.KJ:                                04:22                So Karen, so what I really want to talk about today is the specifics of writing with chronic illness, but also more on a general note, just the challenges of writing when it's hard. I think that we all have times when we feel like this is impossible and you have written through moments that I think most of us would define as actually impossible. So, start by telling us where you stand and how this started for you.Karen:                          04:56                Wow. It's, it's quite a story. So, actually first of all, I think I just want to say that I was well into writing my second book before I would dare to call myself a writer. So there's that as well. I was like, I'm a podcaster, I'm not a writer. You know what I mean?KJ:                                05:14                Yeah, no, we all have that. Yeah. I mean it's always, well, I wrote for the New York Times, but only online, you know Nobody, none of us thinks we're a real writer yet. Yeah, except maybe Salmon Rushdie, he thinks he's a real writer.Karen:                          05:34                Thinks he's a writer. Yeah, exactly. A real writer. I was midway through the second book and I was like, I said to somebody, Oh, I'm a writer. And I was like, wait a minute, I actually am a writer. I'm like, that's pretty cool. For me, it all started eight years ago, more than eight years ago now, I contracted a tendon disorder. And the way that I did it was I got a gastric disease called diverticulitis, which I would not wish on my worst enemy. And I took some (this is the nearest that my doctors and I can figure out) I took a really strong course of antibiotics to get rid of it. And they had a thing in them called fluoroquinolones. And since that started, since I went down this rabbit hole, it's been discovered that fluoroquinolones cause tendon problems largely in kids, but caused these problems anyway. And the rheumatologist told me, probably four or five years in that like I'm one of the lucky few who it stuck around for it. There's like a third of people who get this that they get it and get better right away. And then there's a third who sort of get it and it sticks around for a couple of years. And then I'm one of the ones who's, you know, it's gone on for a really long time.KJ:                                06:42                That's just annoying.Karen:                          06:45                I mean, isn't it?KJ:                                06:48                The truth is that in a single hand card game, odds don't matter and it’s either going to stay or it's not and if it stays those odds just make you mad.Karen:                          06:57                Yeah. And I, I, it took me a long time to get here, but I, I would say that what I've done is I've kind of gone through a real metamorphosis, you know, before I was a caterpillar and then this was my chrysalis and now I'm a butterfly. Like I truly understand the meaning of differently abled in a way I never, ever did before. For the first couple of years, the focus was really on my legs. I lost almost complete use of one leg in particular (my right leg) because of some of the tendons in it. And then there was a sort of very long rehab. But while I was going through that, I needed a wheelchair. Whenever I left the house it was a mess. And when that got better, then my thumb tendon started to go. And I'm still basically really still recovering from that. The legs are much better than the upper body. So all my writing is done online, and I do it with a speech recognition software. But, I want to even go further back than that, if it's okay.KJ:                                08:04                Yeah.Karen:                          08:05                Because I, the whole reason that I started to do anything is because I wanted, it sounds, it may sound silly, but I wanted to give a TED talk. I was, I remember watching TED talks and loving them and laughing at them. Like I couldn't move, I was stranded in a chair. And I remember thinking, you know what I could do, I could do a TED talk in a wheelchair. I want to do a TED talk. And so what, I, I haven't done one yet, I'm still hoping to, but this whole thing started because I was like, well, I want to do that. So my husband especially helped me try to figure out like, how could you do that, because at the same time as I wanted that I was also feeling incredibly useless and a total burden at home. We had two young kids and I couldn't be the house wife, and I couldn't be the cook. And I couldn't be the laundry and I couldn't be the chauffeur. So I really was feeling very down, like not quite suicidal, but if you got hit by a bus it wouldn't be a problem kind of thing. I had to learn first that there is value in me even if I can't use my hands or my legs. Once I learned that, my family was like, we need you, we need you to be the brains, which is how we define it around here. Then I could sort of look outwards from that. And that was when I really decided, I think I want to do a TED talk. And that has led to so much cool stuff. And even if it's not ever a TED talk, I'm so happy.KJ:                                09:33                Well, I mean, you know, it's kind of cool that it started from that, right? And, and it remains as a goal, but now you have, you know, you have so many other goals that you have achieved in the meantime.Karen:                          09:54                That's a very good thing to know. I mean, I, it's nice to have that validation, you know.KJ:                                10:01                Yeah.Karen:                          10:02                Thank you.KJ:                                10:02                I almost don't even know where to go from that, but so you've picked a topic and you took it from there. It's sort of hard to list all the things that you have, but you have this thriving online community, you have a coaching business, you have a lot going on now. What came first?Karen:                          10:28                So first came the podcast and that came about in a really interesting way too, because my husband wanted me to have an iPhone. So part of my problem, part of the hands per happened because I was doing too much texting on a phone that had those nine buttons, you know what I mean, where you'd have to like cycle through the number one to get to a and all those sorts of things. And that really blew up with the thumb tendons and my husband's like, okay, we're gonna get you an iPhone because it's playschool. You won't ever have to worry about like anything. You know, there's no, you don't have to choose between apps. Like it's just, it's there for you, there's no worries with an iPhone, which my family has since they've gotten Androids and there are times where they want to throw them out the window, you know what I mean? But I still have an iPhone because I need it. And that was when I really first discovered podcasts and one of my favorite podcasts was done by an entrepreneur who teaches other people how to start an online business. And I really wanted to start an online business.KJ:                                11:34                You need to name the podcast, by the way.Karen:                          11:37                Oh, that podcast is called The Solopreneur Hour podcast with Michael O'Neal. So I got into his podcast and I started trying to do something. I made a horrible, horrible website with my husband's help that I'm so glad it's gone, basically. Because I just needed to start and I knew I wanted to do something for parents of young children. I have a master's degree in early childhood education, I've got a bachelor's in human development and family relations, I've got nine years as a preschool teacher in an industry standard, state of the art, absolutely wonderful town-run preschool program. The town I grew up in actually. And I wanted to help parents cause I couldn't be in the classroom anymore, so maybe I could, you know, I could at least help them that way. So, I'm developing this pretty awful website and I'm doing it listening to Michael O'Neal's show. And I wrote to him at one point to basically say thank you because what he was doing was making me feel like I could do this, like this was attainable by me. And I explained my tendon condition and he read my letter on the air and he gifted me three months in his coaching program. I just want to take a moment to send up a silent thank you to him because I don't know what I would've done if I hadn't had him. But I mean, what, he's just a wonderful guy.KJ:                                13:08                Say a thank you to you because if you didn't reach out, do you know exactly when he would've come and knocked on your door if you hadn't written that letter? Never.Karen:                          13:17                Exactly.KJ:                                13:19                Yeah. You know, we often are like, yeah, I was really lucky because, but you made your luck.Karen:                          13:24                Yeah, that's very true. And I remember the feeling of like, this is really happening. Like, Oh my gosh. And his real jam, the thing he's really good at helping people figure out is what's your brand. And so we went through, as I said, he took one look at my goofy website that I had been working on and he was like, Oh, you know, this isn't going to fly. Yes, not this. Exactly. And then we spent, I would say probably a good part of those first three months coming up with the concept and the brand. And I, I will never forget the day after trying three or four, you know, names, when I said to him, you know, what I've been really thinking about and pushing around is the idea of a podcast called we turned out okay. And he was like, that's it. He goes, that's it. And then he goes, you know what your tagline is? It's the modern parent's guide to old school parenting. I was like, yes. And it was just so much fun. So the whole process was fun and like he made it fun and he made me feel like I could do this, you know? Whereas at home I was sort of getting a little bit of like, are you sure? Do you really want to take this on? This is a lot for somebody with, you know, with the conditions and the problems that you've got. And it was so motivating and such fun to be in that program, so I'm grateful to him. Very grateful.KJ:                                14:43                Well, and it's cool that it came about that he offered that to you, but this is also sort of a moment to recognize that getting some coaching can be super helpful. I think a lot of us are really reluctant to spend money on our dreams and, and also we have this feeling that if we were really capable, if we could really do it, we could do it on our own.Karen:                          15:08                Exactly.KJ:                                15:10                If I were a real writer, I wouldn't need an editor's help. If I were a real entrepreneur, I wouldn't need a coach to guide me through finding my brand. And that is, that's just, that's just not true. We all need to learn where we're going and getting in with an expert can can cut your time in half, it can inspire you, it can help you see exactly what you saw, which was that it might not look to people on the outside like you were ready to do this, but you wanted to prioritize it. I think that's cool, too.Karen:                          15:45                Yeah. So that's how I got started. That's a really long story for how I got started.KJ:                                15:51                Okay. We accept long stories. So at this point, you're podcasting and then you must at some point have sort of decided, well, I need some blog, I need some writing to go with this podcast. Let us know how you figured out how to do that, especially given that you were gonna need to dictate.Karen:                          16:15                So I think one of the, one of the things that a lot of people overlook I guess or don't want to hear maybe, is that you've got to start it before you know what it is. You have to start it before it's fully formed. And I started the podcast in 2014 or 2015, it's just over four years old. So 290 episodes in, in four years and counting. I got to maybe like 56 or 57 and I did an episode called Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics and people went nuts for it. Like I started to get emails from people and that got downloaded more than any other episode I'd ever done. People really responded to the idea that, wait a minute, there are these little Ninja tactics I can do to make my home life better? It's super easy, but things that I know as an early childhood professional that maybe, a parent who's not, wouldn't know, you know what I mean? So things like, how to make no sound like yes was one of those first Ninja Tactics. What I did from that was I decided to write a book called Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics. And I wanted to be able to talk about it in written form as well. You know, there's this idea you should have an email list. I've been taking a lot of time to try and figure out what my email list is going to be and I've gotten to 2019 and I figured it out and I love it. And people again are really responding to it. It's a weekly newsletter now, where I always get to vary it. But, I started it as, Hey, if you want to get notified when Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics is available, then I'll put you on this email list and you can find out and that really grew from there. For me it's been a lot of experimentation and exploring my burnout rate. So I used to do a six episodes in a month. And I realized that after the second year that that was not working for me. It was too much. I couldn't concentrate on my coaching clients if I was spending that much time on the podcast. Instead, I started doing these biweekly live members only calls for the people in my community. And, and if I did that twice a month instead of this extra podcast, I suddenly, I wasn't burned out anymore. I was focusing my energies in the right place because the people in the community could then say to me, here's my question about this. And I could go, Oh my God, people who listen to the podcast need to hear about that too. So I'm serving my clients first and then being able to bring these cool things to the listeners.KJ:                                19:08                Right.Karen:                          19:09                So, then I started listening to Joanna Penn, the Creative Penn podcast. And I started to sort of reframe myself as not just as a podcaster, but as an author as well. And what she does is so cool because she's all about like write books that are really professional and well written and fantastic at giving good advice and keep writing them. And I was like, you know what, that's something I could do. And so I've been working on that.KJ:                                19:43                So wait, wait. You're saying that's something I could do, but you don't type.Karen:                          19:50                No, I don't type, exactly.KJ:                                19:53                First of all, we want to know how you actually do it, but how did you get over that mental block of, you know, I'm going to write, but not with a pen, not with a keyboard, and not with a pencil.Jess:                             20:07                I'm especially waiting to hear about that because I have tried.KJ:                                20:11                We want the mental block first, then we want the tools.Jess:                             20:15                I just can't. I've tried so hard, so I'm dying to hear how you do all the dictation.Karen:                          20:20                Can I just say that it was not without many temper tantrums? I mean, I think this is necessity as the mother of invention. There was no way for me to do this without the speech recognition software. So I had to form a truce with the speech recognition software. So for me over these years now I've spent, I don't know if I've gotten my 10,000 hours in or not yet, but I would say probably. But the way that I got there was by doing it. So, I work much better if I can read something that is printed. So, my husband printed out the entire user manual for speech recognition software. So I was learning the commands - because there are these interesting commands that you can use. So you can tell it to click here, you can tell it to click save, you can bring up a mouse grid. I think if you guys are looking for the tool that has been a lifesaver for me. It's this idea of a mouse grid. So I want you to envision your computer screen and you say the words mouse grid. And what happens is a grid of nine blocks comes up on your screen. Say I want to click something in the lower left corner, that that happens to be the number seven. So I would say seven. And then the mouse grid would reappear, but the whole mouse grid is now where the number seven used to be. And so it's a little more focused now in that corner.KJ:                                21:57                And where do you get something like that?Karen:                          22:00                Where do you get the mouse grid?KJ:                                22:02                Yeah.Karen:                          22:02                Well, I use Dragon Speech Recognition software, so it's a component of that. But I'll tell you, I learned how to use that properly by watching the most beautiful and just heartbreaking video on YouTube. I mean you think you've got problems, right? And then you Google how to use the Dragon mouse grid and the person describing it to you is a person who not only has lost the use of his arms and legs, but also has speech difficulties and they are describing to you how to use this mouse grid and then they are using the mouse grid. By the time he gets to the small enough place in the grid in this video, I am crying. I mean my thought was if somebody like that can not only do that, but teach me how to do it, there is nothing that will stop me. Like what a good, incredibly good example of someone who's making it work no matter what, you know?KJ:                                22:56                Wow. All right, we're going to find that. We're going to link it.Karen:                          22:58                So, the mouse grid is a huge tool. I've discovered that Dragon plays very well with Chrome and not very well with Firefox, for example. So there have been times where I have felt like I was drowning and that I just couldn't get a breath. I wish I had a better description. Like, I will sit down and I'll be like, alright, I'm going to write a blog post and I use the speech recognition software to open Google Chrome and then I use it to navigate. to the inside of my website, not the outside pages everybody sees, but the sort of private admin pages and I get to the correct post.KJ:                                23:56                And you're doing all that using the Dragon Dictate?Karen:                          23:59                I am, yeah.KJ:                                24:00                So we think of Dragon Dictate as something that lets you dictate a story, but you can sort of basically set it up to run your whole...Karen:                          24:09                You can, yeah. You can use their voice commands for all of this. But what I've learned to be more patient with what used to kill me so bad was I would get three quarters of the way through that process and then I would open the dictation box, but sometimes Dragon can't see and doesn't know what you're trying to do. I don't know how else to describe it - it won't write anything. You'll say something and it will say, we can't recognize that speech or something and you're just like ugh. So I would get all the way to that point and then the app would crash or something like that. Talk about temper tantrums! But I just kept playing the song It's a Long Way to the Top by AC DC. I kept thinking to myself, there's no other way. Like it's either this or you go throw yourself in front of a train, like what's it gonna be here honey? And, I knew I wasn't going to do that, so I was gonna have to keep doing this basically. Does that make sense?KJ:                                25:15                Oh yeah, no, it totally, it totally makes sense. So now you're writing a book via Dragon Dictation and all of the challenges that that entails and then you're editing it the same way.Karen:                          25:33                I am. And, and I have learned - this was such a breakthrough for me. So, say if I'm going to write the title of a chapter and have Dragon sort of recognize it, I can now make a recording for my podcast, get my microphone out and my headphones and stuff like that. And I can say the following. So, here's the title of my book that dragon will recognize. OK. are you ready?KJ:                                26:04                Yeah.Karen:                          26:05                Cap educating cap. Happy cap kids, colon numeral nine cap ways to cap help cap your cap, child cap, learn cap to cap and joy cap learning, something like that. I can't remember it exactly, but I'm, that's the book I'm working on right now.KJ:                                26:19                So, you're fluent in, you're fluent in punctuation.Jess:                             26:24                There really is a whole other language.Karen:                          26:26                It's a whole other language. But what's neat is you can get into the flow of it in a recording sense. So like I can record 15 minutes of language that sounds like that. And, and I can, there's a transcribe button in Dragon and it will take that and put it on paper but legibly so that it can be read. It just says educating happy kids. Nine ways to help your child learn what they need to know. And it's like such a mirror every time this, every time I see this appearing, I'm just like, yay!KJ:                                26:59                I need to quickly hop in and apologize for only naming your most recent book cause I knew that you had more. But in the intro I, for whatever reason just threw out the first one. We will be listing them all.Karen:                          27:10                Oh, thank you. No worries. I mean, I appreciated that you listed any of them. I mean this is the one that I'm currently working on, so this is the one that my brain is like really thinking about. So I just today, today I sent it off to my editor for final revisions, so yay.Jess:                             27:31                It was funny when you said the thing about how if you want to do this thing badly enough, you can figure it out. But when we were interviewing Shane recently about the fact that he uses his two thumbs to type entire books on his iPhone and Oh my gosh, you know, KJ and I used to have a segment in the show called Ow It Hurts, but it was always like it hurts. Like, Oh, I don't really want to write this, but not like I have to write an entire book with my two thumbs. If Shane Burcaw can write three books with his thumbs, I think I can figure out the intricacies of how to use dictation software.Karen:                          28:17                If you want to, if it's a real goal of yours. I think a lot of times that I would not be a podcaster or an author without the tendon disorder. Like I was, I was too invested in my own life. I guess. I remember sort of having this yearning, like I remember being 38 about a decade ago and just saying to my husband, like, you know what, isn't there anything else? I mean, I love you and I love the kids, but isn't there anything else? I think had I not gotten the tendon disorder and, and had all of that other stuff kind of stripped away from me, I'm not sure that I would've had the guts even to try something different. Even now I will walk into a Christmas tree shops and I get tired, so I often need to find a seat so you'll find me sitting on the bird seed. This happened just recently. I was in line of Joann Fabrics and the line was so long that I literally sat down on the floor and crossed my legs and apologized to everybody around me and said, this is just what I have to do. I mean, once you've been through things like that, those are really socially embarrassing situations and it's like, well, I can do anything if I can do this.Jess:                             29:36                I just am fascinated. I've never, I'm fascinated. My brain is stuck on the line that I wouldn't be a writer without my tendon disorder. I think, you know, the thing, the very thing that makes that more difficult for you is the thing that made it happen. And I find that really wonderful and fascinating and complicated.Karen:                          29:54                Yeah. Thank you for recognizing it. When I think metamorphosis, that's really what I think of. And I came to our conversation today with a couple of points that I wanted to make sure to cover. If anyone is trying to work in difficult circumstances that, that I thought they might want to know, this is what's worked for me and the first one is to just own it, to say to yourself, this is what I want to do. Like it can be so easy for us to get caught up in I've got to get dinner on the table and I've got all these duties that we have in our day and there can be some guilt around backing away from work or family and saying, I'm taking this time to do this thing that I really want to do. And for me that had to come first.KJ:                                30:44                Yeah. I mean, if, if you are in a situation where you have limited resources, be there physical or mental to put them into this thing that at that moment is only for you is really hard. You know, it's very easy to say to yourself, well, you know, if I'm going to have like an hour of, of like sort of on time today because I'm suffering from exhaustion or because I get physically tired, I should put that into my kids' school meeting or dinner or you know, something. So I think that's really important.Karen:                          31:21                Yeah. That's what's worked for me. I remember lying in bed one morning just before I wrote to Michael O'Neal, just before I started to like come up with this website. And I remember lying in bed one day and every day I had been thinking, you got to get busy living or get busy dying, which is from a movie, it might be from the Shawshank Redemption. I literally would lie in bed going, are you going to get up now cause you got to get busy living or get busy dying. And on this particular day I sat up in bed and I said out loud, I am doing this and I'm not even sure that I knew what this was yet. But like it was this idea of I am breaking free of the sort of constraints. Whether they are because I feel guilty that I can't do very much or because like my time really ought to be spent on this other thing. And I was basically like, I got no hands. So like I'm going to do this, whatever it is.KJ:                                32:21                I was just going to say, okay fine. If you can get your mental head around it. And it also sounded like you had had partner support, which is great, but sometimes we have to go on without it.Karen:                          32:34                Yup. Yup. Yup. It was huge. So Ben used to say to me, he's actually the producer of my show. And what's funny is he has a day job, he goes off to work every day and that doesn't have anything to do with audio. But he went to school for sound engineering and his friends from college are people who work on the Today Show or who have won Grammy's and stuff like that. And he basically decided that his life was going to take a different path, but we used to joke, we'd pass a radio station in the car and I'd be like, Hey, let's move here and I'll be the talent and you can be the producer. And like that's kind of what's happened, which is so interesting. So he gets to feed his audio soul a little bit. He gets to geek out over, you know, making the show sound great and like all the cool, you know, little audio things that he couldn't do before. So support is really important. But I will say this, too. Ben is the one who, he was like, he used to say like, we need to get you with your friends because you're so much happier when you're like with people. He would say, I've seen you come alive today. We went to a party or something and cause it's just so hard to be sitting alone and you know, only feeling like you can't do stuff. So, when I said to him, I think I'd like to try starting a a business, he was like, yes, please. I'm glad because you need something to do with your mind. So he was always very, very supportive from the beginning. I didn't think to put that on the list, but I think that's probably pretty important.KJ:                                34:05                Well, it's, it's hard to be the partner because you can think to yourself, you know, if I were in that position, I would do such and such. Well, and first of all, you don't know what you would do, but secondly, you can't actually do it. So, you know, you can look at your partner and see, well I, she really needs to get out there and, and do stuff with her friends. But it's not like he can pack you into the car.Karen:                          34:25                Yeah, exactly.KJ:                                34:28                To be them too. All right, well what comes next?Karen:                          34:29                Alright. So next for me was the idea of just starting small, like small habits have won the day for me. When I first started, and even sometimes now, I have a version of your open the document, you know what I mean? And I always felt like, so if you've got 5% use of your hands, what can you dedicate that 5% to? And sometimes it was twirling spaghetti and that was all I had, you know. But if I've got 15 minutes, if I can take the next 15 minutes and dedicated to writing something like, and then I don't do anything else for the rest of the day, that's fine. I put one foot in front of the other today. I took one step. So really small habits that you do repeatedly. The next thing I think, cause you can say to yourself like, it's too big. I can't, I just can't. But, but if you try to break it down to like the smallest step, the step, the step that you feel like, okay, I can do that, I will do that. And then you're done for the day and you come back to it the next day. So small habits are fun and good. The next one that comes up for me is celebrate the wins. Even the tiny ones like - so actually, I've been writing a fictional book one minute at a time, which I know sounds crazy, but it worked for Neil Gaiman so I feel like it's gonna work for me.KJ:                                35:57                It's really the only way to do it. It's just a question of whether they're consecutive minutes or not.Karen:                          36:02                Yes, exactly. I just don't have the time to commit to even 15 minutes a day of fiction writing, but I can open a notebook and it's actually, it's hand strengthening practice too is how I look at it. I can open a notebook and I can write a sentence. And what I've been taken to is I'll write a full sentence and then I'll make the next sentence be like the beginning of the next sentence. So the next day when I come back, I've got a writing prompt basically. And I have found that it's enough to keep this story alive for me. Like, so I had the idea for the novel and I did a lot of work around who's who, what's the main character dealing with? I have a dear friend who lives in Maine and the property next to her dream property has been taken over by a jerky landlord who insists on bringing like people from away who shoot off guns and bring bands in and they're raising a family. And so I'm writing this to give her some hope, basically. I've been having a ball with it, one minute at a time. So that's one of my one minute, like that's one of my tiny habits. I can't do more than that. So that's what I do. And when I do it, I celebrate that win, like I did this today. Yes.KJ:                                37:20                Yes. All right. Keep going. Do you have time to?Karen:                          37:25                I got two more, two more. I think my most important resource is energy. When my energy level is gone, it is gone and I have to go to sleep for eight hours to get it back. So, I tend to work in projects and the way I think of it is like I'll do so quarterly, I'll look at this each quarter anew and my project for the first month of the quarter is recording the podcast episodes and getting those show notes done so that for the whole quarter. So now I've got two other months that I can keep writing or I can do other cool stuff. This August we're gonna have a staycation. So I get to do that because I planned in July for August. So I'll get that project completed and then work on the next project. So, for this quarter it's been educating happy kids has been really my next project. That and rest.KJ:                                38:24                That's your next book, right?Karen:                          38:25                Yup. That's my next book. I have found that is a really great way to manage my energy level because I can see progress as I'm working through a bigger project. For me that really, really works. It may not work for everyone. Some people might like to sort of get a little bit of something done every day repeatedly, but I like to be able to say, okay, that project is finished and now I can move on to the next one. So I've been doing that. And then the last one, and this is probably the most important one, is the idea of trying again tomorrow. So like if today is a blowout, if you cannot do it, if, if everything has gone wrong today, you still have the choice to get up and try again tomorrow.KJ:                                39:11                Cool. Yeah, no, that's, that's great. I love it.Jess:                             39:14                We've also observed in the past, this happens to me with writing and it happens to me with teaching that some of my very worst teaching and writing days have been followed by some of my best. So that's a good reminder for me that no matter how crappy things go on one day it can turn around completely the next.Karen:                          39:33                Yup. Yup. And as I think as a part of all of this, there's this idea of support.Speaker 3:                    39:39                Like we talked about that a little bit with my husband, right? But you guys are such a support for me. The #AmWriting Facebook group is one of the only places I go on Facebook. I go there and I go into the group of We Turned Out Okay listeners that I have developed over there,KJ:                                39:55                It is the only place I go.Jess:                             39:57                It's literally true. KJ and I, what we did was we made it so that the group is our bookmark for Facebook. So if you're going to go on Facebook, you have to go there.Karen:                          40:07                No way.Jess:                             40:08                Yeah.KJ:                                40:09                You can, that you could have two bookmarks, one for our group and one for your group and then you never have to risk being caught up in something

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Are you ready to ditch your keyboard? Scott Baker is an expert in all things Dragon Dictation. If you want to learn to train your Dragon, Scott’s your man. Scott’s official bio: Scott Baker has written dozens of books under various pen names and spent most of the last decade working as a freelance writer for numerous publications in the UK. He first began dabbling with Dragon voice recognition software in the late 1990s when it was, quite frankly, terrible. Things have improved dramatically since then and Scott now uses dictation on a daily basis, taking advantage of the tricks and techniques used by professionals within the speech recognition industry to write thousands of words per hour. More importantly, he’s developed books and courses to help you master Dragon Dictation and incorporate it into your writing lifestyle. What you need to know: Learning Dragon Dictation will cost you money, time and practice. In this episode, we chat about the following: boosting your workflow 2-10k words transcription what equipment you will need to invest in workflow training your dragon Alexa, Google Home & Siri accuracy ditching your keyboard and much more   You can find out more about Scott, and Training Your Dragon books and courses https://scottbakerbooks.com/books/ (here.) You can listen to my first podcast chat with Scott https://writerontheroad.com/?s=scott+baker (here.) You can download Issue 3 of Author Success Magazine https://writerontheroad.com/author-success-stories-magazine/ (here.) Read Full Transcript Mel Scott Baker is an expert in all things Dragon Dictation. If you want to learn to train your Dragon, he's your man. In this interview, we're getting into the nitty gritty of how we can use the dictation tool to improve our writing. Scott, tell us about the course you're running. Scott It basically takes you through everything you need to get started with Dragon and make the software part of your writing workflow. It's available for both Mac and PC, and explores not just Dragon specifically but dictation itself – the act of using dictation, as opposed to just perfecting your use of the software. I made the course because, although I've written a book on this subject (‘How to Train Your Dragon'), there's only so much you can put in a book. The amount of questions I get every single day… Most of my day is just answering emails, and I eventually thought it'd be easier if I could just show everyone – if I could just put it in a course. So that's what I did. It's hours and hours and hours long, but that's okay because literally every single step is covered, from setting up to making it as accurate as it can be over time. It's a course about using dictation as part of a business; about integrating it and viewing it as a long-term thing. The goal is to use dictation instead of a keyboard, really. Forget the keyboard – that's for editing, later. The course is about getting your first draft done with Dragon. Mel Let's start at the beginning. What's the first thing we need to know? Scott I get a lot of people asking me that same question – how do I start? Unfortunately you're going to have to accept that this is going to cost money. Whichever way you look at it, the software is expensive. But it's an investment – an investment in your writing career. Dictation leads to an enormous boost to your workflow. Part of the reason I got started with it is I can't type very fast. I've had back problems for most of my adult life, so I decided I needed something to level the playing field for me, especially when I was working as a freelancer and had deadlines that had to be met. Dragon was the answer. It was the key. The first thing to do is to get used to dictation software. Use some form of dictation whenever you can – on your phone, or through Alexa or Google Home or whatever. Ask it things throughout the day and just get used to talking to a machine.

In this episode of Turning Lemons Into Lemonade, you'll hear from Janneke den Draak.  Janneke is from the Netherlands and is blazing a trail of coaching and online courses in a country where that isn't the norm! Janneke started her business through two key circumstances that forced her into a life of entrepreneurship.  First, she had been an IT engineer who at the age of 28 was diagnosed with repetitive motion syndrome - meaning that she could no longer use her arms and hands at a computer any more - leaving her with an inability to do a LOT of different types of jobs - not just the one for which she had been trained! In the days prior to Google - Janneke did an internet search and found Dragon Dictation software and started learning how to run her computer with dictation.  Shortly thereafter, she got a job as a consultant on speech recognition and Dragon Dictation.  A few years later, her entire department was let go - and she was out of a job!  Fortunately, because they were eliminating her department, she was able to contact the clients and take them with her.  One of the big struggles she described as a first time entrepreneur was the inexperience of negotiating her own contracts - and how that was a brand new skill that she wasn't prepared for!

Daughter of a Ugandan Foreign Service diplomat, Rose Sandy was raised across the world—from Baghdad to India, Germany, and Paris. She met her husband in Berlin and decided London was the place she wanted to raise her family. She’s a talented musician with a deep interest in technology and works at a leading London publishing house. Rose Sandy is the author of the Calla Cress Techno Thriller series which has over 100,000 downloads—and she shares her experiences of traveling the globe, the self-publishing world, and doing research in the halls of London’s museums. [5:12] Rose went to international schools all her life and developed her love for Shakespeare (her favorite spot to see his plays being the Globe). Her love for stories spread to literature at large, but it wasn’t until she had children that she contemplated writing fiction of her own. When her kids were very young, Rose had a conversation with herself—stoking the urge to write a draft of a novel in three months. It was winter, so she thought it would be possible to stay indoors and get enough on paper for a whole draft. She was able to complete that draft, and after feedback from friends, publishers, and agents she decided to take the self-publishing leap and send her work out into the world. “In this day and age readers are very used to the visual. They’re very used to plots that work in Hollywood or TV. So when we’re writing fiction—I think we have to have that reader in mind who has that attention span in mind.”   [7:58] With her Decrypter series, Rose wanted to write a strong female character—something many thrillers tend not to touch. Her books read as a genre mix-up of James Bond and the Matrix, with settings that span the globe. When asked how she finds time to write such complex novels while raising children, and as the head of a division at a major publishing house, she replies “Actually, there’s never enough time in the day.” However, she does write on the tube and dictates using a technology that transcribes her first drafts (but not while on the train). “The main character is a British museum curator who is an orphan, and she’s always just wanted to know about what happened to her parents. And she somehow gets recruited into an undercover organization that has ties with five governments.” She plans for pockets of time to write or do research. She reads up on BBC focus magazines on science and technology, while also spending time at a lot of museums—as her main character is a museum curator. With one of her favorite spots being the Museum of London, you may wonder if she’s happened to pass Jason Sandy (from episode one) in the museum’s hallways after a fruitful season of Mudlarking. You would be right to think this, as the two are married. [19:36] Of course, Rose has some of her own personal experiences tied into her work—specifically London as a setting. Almost all of the locations in the book correspond to real life locales in London, including her favorite, the British Library. Rose has been vetted for a special pass where she has access to the library’s reading rooms which house a copy of the Magna Carta and other historical manuscripts. She has interviewed workers at the British Museum to see exactly how experts handle these precious documents so that her characters can be as realistic as possible. Links RoseSandy.com (http://www.rosesandy.com/) JotterPad (https://2appstudio.com/jotterpad/) Creative Writer (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/creative-writer-fun-easy-write-ideas-for-writing-texting/id737521232?mt=8) Dragon Dictation (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-anywhere/id1024652126?mt=8) Support this podcast

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You can't Swype, but you can use VR if you're blind. What kind of backwards world is it we're living in?! Show notes and links: Swype Keyboard for Android with Dragon Dictation has been Discontinued (xda-developers.com) Microsoft's new 'canetroller' brings VR to the visually impaired (thenextweb.com) Jeff Bezos Begins Installation of His Bonkers 10,000 Year Clock (gizmodo.com) 3D-printed smartphone microscope is good enough for scientists (engadget.com) Three Duluth students chase the currency of Red Bull | NewsCut (mprnews.org)

The news includes: MyHeritage introduces its new DNA Match Review Page. MyHeritage has recently released more than 14 million Australian birth, baptismal, marriage, burial, and death records from the state of Victoria (1836-1942). MyHeritage has redesigned the Help Center at its website and added more than 750 up-to-date help articles and expanded the content. RootsMagic announces a new software update. It also announced that the application now works under the new macOS High Sierra operating system. RootsMagic reminds users that there are both a video tutorial and a written user reference to help you master the new TreeShare for Ancestry feature. Evidentia released an update, version 3.1.5. They have added a new Direct Line (Lineage) Tracker allowing you to record links in a new way. It's perfect for your work applying for membership to lineage and heritage societies. Evidentia has also added a new advanced feature that supports Custom Style Sheets for reports. Ancestry's CEO Tim Sullivan has stepped down and becomes Chairman of the company's Board of Directors effective 1 October 2017. Howard Hochhauser, the company's CFO, will assume the interim role of CEO as the company conducts a search for a permanent replacement. Findmypast has appointed Tamsin Todd as its new CEO. She takes over from interim CEO Jay Verkler and brings an impressive CV to the position. Sue Tolbert, the Executive Director of the Three Rivers Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma, is stepping down after having reorganized the museum, added a wealth of new historical holdings, developed educational programs and annual cultural events, and expanded the museum's presence in the region. She is succeeded by Amy Bradshaw, who brings her impressive background experience with several museums in Oklahoma and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Association of Professional Genealogists just concluded its annual Professional Management Conference in the Washington, DC, area. Two important awards were made: Meryl Schumacker of Minnesota was the winner of the APG Young Professional Scholarship. APG has established the Laura G. Prescott Award for Exemplary Service to Professional Genealogy. Laura was the first recipient of this new annual award. The Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (GEN-FED) has announced that the 2018 Institute will be held July 16-20. Online registration will be held on 24 February 2018 at its website at http://www.gen-fed.org. You can also sign up for email announcements at http://www.gen-fed.org/gen-fed-2018. RootsTech 2018 has been expanded to four days, 28 February through 3 March, and it will introduce a new Innovation Showcase. Findmypast has added baptisms, marriages, burials, and wills for Lancashire, Herefordshire, new browseable parish registers for Warwickshire, and new records for Gloucestershire. New Connecticut records (1600s-1800s) have been added, along with some UK monumental inscriptions, and several new Irish newspapers. Go Ahead Tours and Ancestry have announced that they will partner in a portfolio of guided genealogical tours, including Sicily, Southern Italy, German, and two tours in Ireland. Call Go Ahead at 1-800-242-4686 to learn more and to obtain details about specific tour destinations and learn about what is entailed in each tour. FamilySearch has released a new web-based indexing tool that makes the process of indexing and searching much easier. In addition, FamilySearch will hold a Worldwide Indexing Event again this year on 20-22 October 2017. Drew shares updates from FamilySearch's recent records additions. Moorshead Magazines is the publisher of Your Genealogy Today, Internet Genealogy, and History Magazine. They also publish special books on the Tracing Your Ancestors Series. George discusses three of these publications: Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors, written by Christine Woodcock Tracing Your Germanic Ancestors, written by Leland K. Meitzler Tracing Your Ancestors: Heritage Travel Tips, Tricks & Strategies, written by Lisa A. Alzo and Christine Woodcock These excellent expert guides and other titles in the series can be ordered at https://your-genealogy-history-store-usa.myshopify.com/collections/tracing-your-ancestors-series. George reviews the following books in this episode: The Fabulous Flying Mrs. Miller, by Carol Baxter. This biography of Jessie “Chubbie” Miller, a contemporary aviatrix of Amelia Earhart and other female fliers who hailed from Australia, is an excellent read. The book describes what it was like to engage in air races to set records, get financial endorsements, and earn money in the 1920s and 1930s. The excitement and danger make for an engaging story, but then Chubbie becomes involved in two other news-making events: when she goes missing on a flight, and when she becomes a central figure in a high-profile murder trial. Order the book directly from the publisher, Allen & Unwin in Australia, at https://www.allenandunwin.com. It's a great read! English author Nathan Dylan Goodwin continues his excellent series of genealogical crime mysteries with several new titles featuring Morton Farrier, the forensic genealogist. The Spyglass File focuses research on the case of a woman who was abandoned by her family during the Battle of Britain (1940 and 1941) and wants to trace them. Morton learns about the young English women with fluency in German who were recruited to listen to radio traffic of German fliers in order to anticipate air raid sites and scramble receiving planes. He researches the fliers, the women in the service, and more as he seeks out the elusive Spyglass File and its contents. The mysterious story is a page-turner you'll find nearly impossible to put down. The Missing Man continues Farrier's search to learn more about his biological father from the U.S., track him down, and possibly even meet him. In the source of his research, he discovers some strange family history and some startling criminal activities. This book is a compelling read as piece after piece of the puzzles are uncovered. Finally, Goodwin has written a Morton Farrier short story titled The Suffragette's Secret. This is only available as a Kindle e-book. We'll review this as soon as we've had a chance to read it. We also know from his newsletter that Nathan is at work on another forensic genealogist mystery, and he has decided to attend RootsTech 2018.  Listener email includes: Angela just finisher previewing a cookbook titled Pantry and Palate: Remembering and Rediscovering Acadian Food, written by journalist Simon Thibault. The book is a compilation of Acadian family recipes from the author's family, photographs, and family stories. It is a tribute to the author's ancestors and really brought another aspect of their lives to light. Jean cites our announcement about the New York State Death Index that we discussed in Episode # 329. Specifically, she addresses the organization of the index. It isn't always in alphabetical sequence; between 1940 and 1956, the names are organized using Soundex. Tom is tracing his biological parents using DNA, and asks if there a program or tool available that could be used to enter names and matches and then perhaps put unknown matches into some kind of order where they might be more usable. Liv Birgit in Norway uses Dragon Dictation with both English and Norwegian with quite good success,

Jeff and Will kick off the 100th episode with champagne and a reflection on the podcast milestone as well as the announcement that they are giving away a Dreamspinner Press $100 gift card to celebrate, courtesy of Dreamspinner Press. They also toast their 20th marriage anniversary, which comes up on September 7. Jeff updates on the progress he's making boosting his word count using Dragon Dictation for transcriptions. Will reviews the books Owning It by Devon McCormack and Riley Hart and Off Base by Annabeth Albert. Jeff also discusses K.C. Wells's Out of the Shadows. Jeff interviews best-selling author Andrew Grey. They start off talking about Andrew receiving the RWA Centennial Award this year for publishing 100 books as well as his new book, Never Let You Go, which comes out this week. Andrew also talks about how he got started writing, where he gets his ideas and how he keeps up his writing pace. Complete shownotes for episode 100, plus the chance to win the Dreamspinner Press gift card, are at BigGayFictionPodcast.com.

Jeff & Will kick off the show talking about the edits they worked on this week for both their co-written book, The Hockey Player's Heart and Jeff's second Codename: Winger book. Jeff also talked about the results he got using the transcription functions in Dragon Dictation software. Jeff encouraged listeners to donate to Cycle for the Cause for this year. Jay from Joyfully Jay talked with Jeff about the details for the blog's Reading Challenge Month, which kicks off September 4. She also recommended books by E.J. Russell and Eden Winters. They guys also talked about the reading categories and how they might fill them. Will highlighted the recently released books in the new Dreamspun Beyond line. Jeff reviewed the audio book of Martin Wilson's We Now Return to Regular Life. He also talked about a couple summertime viewing options with ABC's reboot of Battle of the Network Stars and CBS's asteroid thriller with a pretty cast, Salvation. Trina Lane stopped by as part of the 2017 GRL Blog Tour to talk about her upcoming release of An Imperfect Union as well as what she's looking forward to at this year's retreat. Complete shownotes for episode 99 are at BigGayFictionPodcast.com.  

Jeff and Will start with a recap of their week, including trying to read two books at once, how Jeff's doing with Dragon Dictation and two sets of edits arriving at the same time. They congratulate the winners who received a copy of Bru Baker's audiobook of Tall, Dark & Deported and they provide a recap of the menage/poly recommendations that listeners provided. The podcast has been nominated in the 12th Annual People's Choice Podcast Awards. Jeff discusses this year's Cycle for the Cause ride and asks for donations to support the LGBT Center's critical HIV/AIDS programs. Listeners are also reminded about the RGRTransAwareEvent that continues at Rainbow Gold Reviews through August 27. The guys discuss Amazon's original series, The Last Tycoon before Will reviews Out of the Shadows, the latest book from K.C. Wells, who then joins them for an interview. K.C. talks about her books, plot bunnies, writing style and the place where two fans once discovered her while she was working on a book.  Complete shownotes for episode 98 are at BigGayFictionPodcast.com.

Jeff opens the show talking about his experience with Dragon Dictation during the past week. Bethany from Rainbow Gold Reviews is welcomed to the show and gives details on the RGR Trans Aware Week that runs from August 14 through 27. Jeff & Will both review Clare London's Romancing the Ugly Duckling, which was performed by Joel Leslie. Then Jeff's reviews Something Like Spring by Jay Bell and performed by Kevin R. Free. Turning to movies, they guys talk about the noir thriller Kiss Me, Kill Me and the documentary Dancer. Will continues the film discussion with Get Out and documentary Doomed. Jeff interviews Alex Miska as part of the 2017 GRL Blog Tour. Alex talks about her Moore Romance series as well as what she's looking forward to at GRL and what to expect from her later this year.  Complete shownotes for episode 97 are at BigGayFictionPodcast.com.

Have you ever tried speech recognition software to dictate your book and supercharge your writing workflow? Scott Baker, author of How to Train Your Dragon, and soon to be provider of online courses of the same name, shares more than a few tricks and tips with us on how to get the most out of the dictation software whilst maintaining our sanity. But it’s his next book, unwritten but in the planning stages, that interests me, Train Your Brain to Write With Dragon, because it’s one thing to buy the software and associated gadgetry etc but it’s another altogether to learn to speak your punctuation at a fast rap. Scott can do it and he assures us it becomes second nature after awhile, but getting your head around all the quote, fullstop, comma and new line stuff that the fun begins. I’ve tried and I’m still deciphering the mess I made. But 7000 words an hour is worth the fight. Being able to ‘write’ anywhere and pin down the atmosphere of a place, character, or setting is irresistible. Scott is adamant it’s the way of the future and who am I to argue. Not only is it impressively fast and accurate if you do it right, it’s also a lot of fun. You can find out more about Scott, his online courses, book, tips and tricks https://scottbakerbooks.com/ (here.)

Dictating your first draft, as opposed to typing it, can exponentially increase a writer's daily word count. James talks to Dragon Trainer Scott Baker about tips, tricks, and equipment to get you dictating like a pro.

1) Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/writinglife 2) Rachel's German translations: 3) Vellum software: https://vellum.pub/ How to use Vellum on a PC: https://paulteague.com/how-to-use-vellum-on-a-pc/ 4) Dragon Dictation software: https://self-publishing-journeys.com/DRAGON [My affiliate link] 5) Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/home/ Freebooksy: https://www.freebooksy.com/ Bargain Booksy: https://www.bargainbooksy.com/ Hot Zippy: http://hotzippy.net/ E-Reader News Today: http://ereadernewstoday.com/ 6) Thunderclap: https://www.thunderclap.it/howitworks 7) Crimefest: http://www.crimefest.com/ Harrogate Crime Festival: http://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/crime-writing-festival/ 8) Rachel at the Brisbane workshop for writers: 9) Rachel's new book: General Links: Rachel's website: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/ Follow Rachel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rach --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/self-publishing-journeys/message

1) Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/writinglife 2) Rachel's German translations: 3) Vellum software: https://vellum.pub/ How to use Vellum on a PC: https://paulteague.com/how-to-use-vellum-on-a-pc/ 4) Dragon Dictation software: https://self-publishing-journeys.com/DRAGON [My affiliate link] 5) Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/home/ Freebooksy: https://www.freebooksy.com/ Bargain Booksy: https://www.bargainbooksy.com/ Hot Zippy: http://hotzippy.net/ E-Reader News Today: http://ereadernewstoday.com/ 6) Thunderclap: https://www.thunderclap.it/howitworks 7) Crimefest: http://www.crimefest.com/ Harrogate Crime Festival: http://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/crime-writing-festival/ 8) Rachel at the Brisbane workshop for writers: 9) Rachel's new book: General Links: Rachel's website: https://www.rachelamphlett.com/ Follow Rachel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rach

1) Another 5k words of Dead of Night written this week, running total is about 16k at the moment. Total target word count is 50k. 2) Dragon Dictation software: http://self-publishing-journeys.com/DRAGON [Affiliate link with 20% off] 3) My InstaFreebie demo pages: Demo 1: http://freebie-books.com/dystopian-scifi Demo 2: http://freebie-books.com/dystopian-scifi-3/ Demo 3: http://freebie-books.com/thrillers/ Page preference poll on an InstaFreebie Facebook group - the small image version was the one that I preferred too, so in spite of the poor vote stats, I'll go with that version: 4) Author Platform Sidekick: http://self-publishing-journeys.com/APS [My affiliate link] This is the Twitter profile that Ian built up from 200+ followers: https://twitter.com/secretbunkerfan 5) Annie Weir's PLR earnings: Listen to Annie's interview at http://self-publishing-journeys.com/episode-2-annie-weir/ 6) Vellum formatting software: https://vellum.pub/ How to use Vellum with a PC: http://www.paulteague.com/how-to-use-vellum-on-a-pc/   7) Kindle Scout: https://kindlescout.amazon.com/ 8) My recommended website service is SiteGround: http://paulteague.com/siteground [Affiliate link]

Scott Baker joins us to discuss how writers can use dictation to supercharge their writing output and protect their health. We take a deep dive into the whys and hows of using Dragon Dictation as an author, including Scott's recommendations for software and hardware. The post TAB103: Using Dictation to Supercharge Your Writing Output appeared first on .

If there's one important resource in our life it's time: Makes sense, there's only a finite amount so we have to make best of it. Say you got a full time job that easily goes over 40 hrs/wk, a profitable side business, and hobbies that could also be profitable. Not to mention if you got a spouse and kids, it's easy to say I'm too busy. You have to be on the hunt for more effective ways to maximize that important time to get the results you need. One of the most inspiring authors I've come across is Frank Viola. Everything he does is quality material constantly. In just 8 years Viola has written 25 full featured book. (half are traditionally published while the other half self published) Not including over 900 blog posts and 125 podcast episodes that gain traction from millions. He really makes me feel small. Over the course of these 8 years, he hasn't worked with other freelancers, ghostwriters, and editorial staffers in his success. I have a lot of respect for this guy if you can't tell. The average productivity rate in America is declining every few percentage points every year since the early 2000's. In this world, this guy knows something about productivity. I've studied what Viola does and how you can apply them in to your life so that you too can be like him as he's just an ordinary guy that has the right mindset and may be the better choices he made in his life. 1. Conduct an activity audit. We all should be doing a financial audit of knowing where every one of your dollars are going every year, but are you doing the same about where you're spending your time on? Viola does this religiously. “It's important for people to track what they're doing every 15 to 30 minutes for an entire week. Just by writing it all down. It's seems tedious but it allows you to visualize where your day is actually going and how you can improve it.” said Viola. In order to know what are the bad, you first need to know where you stand in your every day life. “It's freeing to remove all the different activities and pursuits in my life that seemed helpful, but actually weren't aligned with my goal. This exercise has truly lead me to be more productive,” he said. 2. Practice “tight but loose” prioritization. This is something that was most innovating and biggest reason how this all came about. Even with all the other productive models. While Viola sets up his tasks the night before, that's the only common step and then takes a different direction. He creates a “Twist life balance” that is essentially a combination of 5-10 personal and business tasks together. This creates a unity of energy. While not every task as the same level of importance – he still accomplishes the urgent ones first to push the procrastination away. This is a ‘tight but loose' solution as he goes through his list. This is to prevent a time tasking but motivation instead. And while the tasks vary in importance—he tackles urgent issues first to help stem human tendencies to procrastinate—Viola takes a ‘tight but loose' approach when accomplishing all other listed activities, which means he doesn't constrain tasks by time but rather by his motivation. “I'll create those large projects into manageable activity blocks that aren't factored on time at all. I'll continue doing it until I don't feel like it anymore, then I'll move to something else on my list. This is to apply the best ability to every task rather than just getting them done. I believe that over rigid schedules kills creativity and productivity”, he said. 3. See your projects as art — literally. In the event of losing productivity, A person can waste a lot of time searching for the important information it takes. One of the key areas of lost productivity occurs when individuals waste time searching for important information or files. Really, a lot of people search for information like files every day which be up to an hour or so. That's potentially 4 hours a week spent just on poor file management. This is work that doesn't contribute to anything. To have all the files Viola needs, he hangs them on a wall – just like an office artwork that showcases his working projects. “I hang the designed file organizers which allows me to visually lock on the important documents I have at a glance. This allows me to instantly find any file with in a moment. This allows the productivity to flow better without missing a beat”, he said. Viola also relies on technology to make the most of it. He's big user of Dragon Dictation that allows you to talk and it automatcally transcribes into words. That's at a rate that's around 2-3 times faster than he can type. This allows him to go into more detail than he previously could do to the extra speed boost. “Every one of my tactics might not seem much when alone, but when taken together they create a productive system that's hard to fail.” he said. There you have it, Viola is an interesting guy that we can all learn from.

In this episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell revisit speech recognition technology, look at the ways people are dictating text today, and discuss arguments for and against using it in your law practice. Mighell discusses how faster speeds and improvement in broadband for Siri, Google Now, Cortana, and other tools have made speech recognition a hot topic. He personally uses dictation most often when sending texts from his smartwatch, but he runs into connectivity issues. Kennedy has recently tried dictation again, yielding relatively successful results, but he would not use it to draft full documents. He discusses lawyers' interest in full-time dictation, using an application like Dragon Dictation, and how younger lawyers come into the workplace with the ability to type faster and more efficiently than any speech recognition program. Both Kennedy and Mighell agree that the success of speech recognition technology depends mostly on social and cultural acceptability.

Jim Woods is the co-author of Ready, Aim, Fire! and Hit the Mark! (with Erik J. Fisher). He is an accountant that is transitioning into writing full-time. You can connect with him on his website and on Twitter. Describe the process you go through when writing. Jim likes to brainstorm and get a game plan for what he's going after. If you just go on emotions, you're starting things but not going anywhere. He's starting to study about having multiple passions. If he's driving, he'll use Dragon Dictation to capture ideas. As he approaches an e-book, he looks at like a bunch of blog posts, but closely connected. Jim has tried to use Evernote, but it doesn't work well with his personality. He just e-mails the different files (audio, text, etc.) to himself, making sure to put a subject line that is descriptive. He knows that he can't handle too many projects at once, so he does one big project and one smaller project. Use what works for you. There is no one-size fits all. [Tweet "It is good to also have a physical and digital way to capture ideas. - @jimwoodswrites"] What brainstorming and research tips do you have? Research is dangerous because you can over-research. Use as few resources as possible. Steven Pressfield recommends 3 really good resources. See how the research applies to you or someone else. Tell stories. Just follow the "beginning, middle, end" format. [Tweet "Don't overthink the brainstorming idea. Don't let it stop you from starting - just dive in. - @jimwoodswrites"] How can we use goals with content creation? Jim and Erik J. Fisher co-wrote the book, "Ready, Aim, Fire!" that talks about goals. Jim recommends to buy the book, "Do the Work" by Steven Pressfield. If you're not sure of something, join the club. Doubts are common - it's just a matter if we admit it. Parting advice Creating art is a hard life. We want to be accepted, but be sure to start with yourself. Make sure you really like what you're doing, and everything else will fall into place. If you're struggling too much, it's okay to back away. Do you have any processes or tips for creating content? Thanks to those that left a 5-star review in iTunes: Greg Hickman, Missionary on Fire (Joe Consford), and filmmakerdoc (Doc Kennedy). The post Jim Woods talks about his process and tips for creating content (1-9) appeared first on Creative Studio Academy.

Obvio que los Oasis no son de Liverpool! De Manchester, Leo!!! Playlist de Spotify de #AlFinSolo http://open.spotify.com/user/1199939255/playlist/45XBdzgrrumOLZk44kX5Hf Apps: Bartender y Caffeine. Antonio Quevedo recomienda Magican. App de dictado Dragon Dictation

Let’s face reality...we all have To Do lists.  And while they seem to be never ending at times, To Do Lists can be a good thing. It kinda means we’re still alive! If you don't have any in your life, then you’re probably dead! So, knowing that we’ll always have To Dos, maybe we should have a plan for how to keep track of them and get them done!  So what's the best To Do list? Well, the best To Do lists are the ones that works for you! Whether you prefer an analog or digital solution...anywhere on the spectrum of tying a string around your finger, pencil and paper, or the latest To Do app...figure out the tool or tools that work best for you and stick with it/them. Continue reading... If you’re not sure which tools work best for you, don't worry. Just take some time to think about, research and maybe even test a few tools for yourself before committing to one...or a TON of To Do list management tools. But before you get started, there are some things you should know or consider. Main Topic: To Do Lists in Four Simple Steps We have lots of different types of To Dos: personal, professional, work, projects, etc. But no matter what type of To Do you have, there are four simple steps you have to focus on to get your tasks or To Dos done: CAPTURE them, CONTAIN them, ASSIGN a date and EXECUTE! 1. CAPTURE your To Dos. There are different ways you can do this (you may need to use several ways to capture your To Dos): Write them down. On scratch paper, a post it note or in a notebook. You can also record a voice memo.  We use Dragon Dictation and Evernote. Send an email to yourself. This is convenient when you're on the road or out and about away from the office. Or directly input your task on your To Do list if you have immediate access to it. 2. CONTAIN your To Dos. This is WHERE your To Dos are kept. One of the best things you can do to manage your To Dos is to capture them in ONE PLACE! Paper notebook: Use one you can easily carry around with you or keep in your purse/backpack to take to meetings, on errands, etc. Digital: Google Tasks or spreadsheets are an easy tool to use when it comes to editing and not having to re-write your lists when they get messy on paper. Mobile apps: There are tons! Try searching for "best To Do apps" for your mobile device and try a couple out. Note: Containing your To Dos usually requires some sort of a routine, like an end of work routine before closing up shop or a nightly routine at home where you gather all of your To Dos and put them in the proper "container." 3. ASSIGN a date and time to get them done! Before you decide on WHEN...you need to first determine category (personal, work, projects, etc) and the priority of your tasks. Note: Priorities may change….that’s why you need to have a routine of systematically reviewing your To Dos. Then plug it in on your calendar. Remember...To Dos are pointless unless you assign a date and time to get them done! 4. EXECUTE your To Dos. Putting them on the calendar doesn’t guarantee they’re going to get done but you can use control measures to get help get them done like: Use reminders like on Google Calendar where you can set up email, text and/or pop-up notifications to remind you of your To Do item. Set alarms on your computer or mobile phone for To Dos you need to get done each day. Start a nightly routine where you review your To Dos for the next day. Use post it notes (strategically placed) as an additional reminder for those To Dos you just reviewed during your nightly routine. Create and put up checklists (again...strategically placed) to help remind you of recurring To Do items. These can be posted on paper, dry erase boards, large post it notes,  glass boards, etc. Takeaway: We all have To Do lists and it can get pretty overwhelming trying to manage all of the myriad tasks associated with them.  But if you keep it simple and take a different approach to how you manage you...

So today I have been doing the Audioboo after line down on my sofa suffering with a headache. I started watching Dexter series 7 and I got halfway through the episode before my eyes close completely and I began to snore loudly. We have had some very changeable weather today with it being very cloudy and grim looking this morning, but now it is sunny and we have nice bright blue skies. Because of the wind I didn't do the recording of the Audioboo was outside walking the dog as per usual and I have recorded in the studio or office. I could have done it this morning while I was at work, while it was quiet but instead I was learning some mental mathematics tricks. It is quite fun to learn these mental arithmetic tricks and interesting thing is that you work from the left to the right rather than a way that she was taught in school which was to go from the units on the right through the tens to hundreds etc. iPhone to Android I really do need a phone that would allow me to always have the ability for dictation. I can dictate with my iPhone but only within one application, that is the free Dragon Dictation app. It would be nice to have the full access to dictation in all of the applications I use. This is because I have become so accustomed to dictation using DragonDictate on my Mac. Looking at the prices of the new iPhones the 4S or the iPhone 5 and then comparing with the price of a Samsung Galaxy S3, it makes the Galaxy S3 very tempting. The only problem is that, is that I am so deeply into the iPhone market with all of the apps that I have bought over the years. I imagine that I could get away with finding some of the applications that use to have android equivalents. I will have to have a real think about what I really do with my iPhone and whether that would convert it very well to using Android. With me being such a Apple fan head would be a large and drastic jumping of ship. I do love my iPad and I do tend to carry it with me wherever I go around the house and it is nice to have all my stuff that I do on one Apple device also available on the run ever else I'm using. So I can go to my Mac, my iPhone on my iPad and everything is there ready for me to use. Even so, the price difference between the iPhone 4S or the iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S3 being around €200, it is extremely tempting.

News: iOS causing trouble with Exchange servers, iOS 6.1.1 for iPhone 4S only, Google pays big bucks for iOS search? Apps reviewed: Drafts, Quotebook, A Novel Idea, SimpleMind+, Dragon Dictation.

Tentokrát o:Microsoft, Skydrive, Apple, HDTV, Macbook, Air, iOS, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Jailbreak, iDownloadBlog, iCloud, OS X Lion, 10.7.4, update, Gameloft, NOVA 3, Dragon Dictation, iOS 6, 3D Mapy.

March 7 – iPad 3? iOS surpasses OS X in web traffic, Apps to require permission to access address book.  Apps reviewed: Voice Control, Tweets Aloud Lite, Voxer, Dragon Dictation, Vokul, Vlingo.

Piotr Witek przedstawia aplikację, dzięki której możemy dyktować teksty w wielu aplikacjach w systemie iOS, używając po prostu naszego głosu.

Siri feltörés, Dragon Dictation, Google zenebolt, iTunes Match, Spotify premium, Telenor problémák, AI beszélgetés, Barbon, szoci retró, Gaming

Heute stehen folgende Apps auf dem Programm: League of Evil, Groove Coaster, Classic Computer - Wiki Quartett, jAggy Race, Alkohol Promille Rechner sowie Dragon Dictation

Ganz frisch in den AppStore kommt die Diktiersoftware Dragon Dictation von Nuance, mit der sich fantastisch längere Diktate in das iPhone sprechen lassen, die von der Software dann fehlerfrei und ohne vorheriges Stimmentraining erkannt und in Text umgewandelt werden. Anschließend … Podcast Nr. 6: Wie kommt die Sekretärin in die Hosentasche? weiterlesen →

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