Writing creative writing, story writing and other writings by Rob Hopcott

Writing software speech recognition headset

The writing software that works for me is my speech recognition software, also called voice recognition software. It is particularly useful for doing my first drafts rapidly. I have to keep an eye on whether it is interpreting what I am saying correctly but it generally does quite a good job.

One of the keys to using speech recognition software successfully is to properly train the software. Fortunately, the package I use has an option for the software to read articles I have already written which I understand enables it to learn my speech and writing patterns so it can then achieve better accuracy on new writing jobs. When I implemented the speech recognition software, because I had already written so many articles and stories, the speech recognition software had a lot to train itself with and I think this has been a fundamental reason for the success of the software for me.

Unfortunately, there is one small problem for me with my speech recognition software and that is that I haven’t been able to find a speech recognition package that works with my Ubuntu operating system (a version of Linux). This means that I have to write my article using an old computer that has Microsoft Windows installed and then copy it to my Ubuntu system so the article or story can be put online.

However, the writing software that really works for me is my speech recognition software and I really wouldn’t like to be without it.

Bye for now

Rob

Rob Hopcott - online author