I don't see any particular win for continuous speech in editing
programs. If you want to have speed writing programs, I think the
thing to do is to have macros that fill in all the special characters
for you. And if you have a programmatic editor that you like,
e.g. Emacs, you probably want to the use the power of that editor
along with your speech recognition program -- and the slowness of
NaturallySpeaking's Natural Text's typing would just not make that
combination a win at present time. Unless of course you wanted to
write enough macros to make NaturallySpeaking editing window code
aware -- I'm not seriously proposing this.
NaturallySpeaking is jet propelled for other tasks -- like dictating
email -- and I'm certainly going to enjoy having macros. But, I don't
think it's going to work better for programming than DragonDictate.
>>>>> "RS" == Ruud Schoonderwoerd <ruud@@hplb.hpl.hp.com> writes:
RS> Hello,
RS> I was thinking of using DragonDictate for programming in Java or C. is
RS> there anybody who uses NaturallySpeaking Deluxe macros for this and is
RS> it any better than DragonDictate?
RS> Further I would be interested to know what your experiences are with
RS> programming in general.
Most of the programming that I've done using Dragon dictate has been
in Lisp. I've done enough C++ and Java programming using
DragonDictate and Emacs macros (guess what I was programming in Lisp
-- that's right, Emacs macros) to see that it can work.
RS> Thanks,
RS> Ruud Schoonderwoerd
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