I’m trying an experiment right now. I mean right now as I’m talking to you through some new speech recognition software that I’ve bought and put on my Mac laptop. The software is attempting to learn my speech patterns while at the same time I’m trying to hone my speech patterns to accommodate the software’s ability to get my words correctly reproduced on this page. It’s an interesting semantic struggle.
The intent anyway (naive as it may be) for buying this software is to try to make these posts a little more conversational in tone and a little less, well, stiff. My writing has a way of getting somewhat formal and academic at times, as you, my loyal readers, may have already noticed.
Good news! I’m getting almost 90 percent recognition which means I have to go back and forth a bit to check it out after I’ve pontificated for a paragraph or so. Of course, it’s just a bit strange to be talking to yourself with no one else on the other end of the line, so I manufacture these verbal recordings pretty much at times when no other family members are around. It would certainly confirm their current suspicions that I am slowly, and inevitably, going off the deep end.
But today the experiment is going well and I’m happy with the results. I even think my ability to converse may change, and possibly improve, as the software encourages you to speak in full and complete sentences. The problem will come in, I think, when I punctuate my nicely formed and fully articulated sentences with an inadvertent “COMMA” or append an injudicious inquiry with “QUESTION MARK, NEW LINE.”
I typed in that last sentence. Seems a little stiff don’t you think?
