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Okay, its rapidfire time again. Go try to figure out. 3:10 a.m. Why rapidfire time now!??

I'm really drained. They're going to figure out what I am so tired about, but I really can't put my finger on it. One thing I will tell you, we had a mouse upstairs today -- or closer to the evening. The notion of going upstairs to go to sleep, to go to bed, when the same hall actually in the same room, there was a mouse -- makes me hesitant and diminishes my desire to go to sleep.

I struggle with something else today. Perhaps the end of an era. Although I don't know which era. Some little things, which I do not wish to talk about right now. After all, one really has to ask oneself.

Many times I'd like to dictate with my eyes closed. But I think that is a mistake. I have the font large enough that I should be able to read it as the words goes flying by. And by the way, the words do NOT go flying by. They are first accumulated in one spot, so that the program can readjust words based on fact and sentence construct in context, and then at the end they are delivered to the end of the page.

I have the belt out a whole bunch of words here and I have to get them here within the next two minutes. I need to fill up a page or two of this type of gibberish. I need to do that because it is a cut incumbent upon me to be able to utilize not just simply this tool, but my own ability to burst out in words.

But what is there to talk about? Do I really want to stop talking about current events? And when I do, how much can I really comment on them? OK

Here we have an idea with the ideas is as follows. What to say about Pat Robertson? On his television program, he attacked the president of Venezuela, and said that he is a row. He also said we know how to assassinate and take people out, so he should be taken out. Well! Did that cause a row in Venezuela! The government there was in an uproar at all the good and bent out of shape regarding comments like that.

As of this late at night, I notice on the news that part Pat Robertson has issued an apology. For saying his words were taken out of context -- oh yeah -- and then finally apologizing. And you know what? All those words were definitely not charitable very generous, and old as the original words definitely were calling for the assassination of this man, not a very "religious" thing to do -- nevertheless, he commands no army no police force. He has a TV program yes, but that seems to the extent of his influence and even if that far,.

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I ain't going to chant, and maybe even seemed a little bit. And see what kind of transcription we get here in its place. It will begin, NOW!

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Of a thin as though usually for a good, I am so tired okay. Time to go. It's over. Now let's see is transcribed this, and let's get a good picture for its two. And we needed title.

So maybe the title might be I've of you I have a line in mind so good to buy my.

Position the microphone

The way you position the microphone.

The way you position the microphone has to make a very big difference in the ability of dictation software to hear you clearly, and to collect your words properly.

But that all his raises a problem for me. I have several different microphones, some are standalone, others are connected to headphones. Of the headphone variety I also have two. One is very short in the microphone ends up someplace in the middle of my cheek. The other, on the contrary, it is quite long and keeps on pushing against my chin. I'm sure that the vibrations of my chin against the microphone can't be of much value when my words are trying to be transcribed properly.

So the only alternative I have, and I'm looking into, is taking the long microphone wearing the headphones around my neck rather than on light years, and standing the microphone upwards towards my mouth. I think if I speak loud enough, and especially not to directly to the mic so that it doesn't get the feedback pop, it should be able to pick up my dictation well and clear.

My doctor friend, who uses the software in his profession, went down and bought himself a $300 microphone. It has a little slice on all switch on top of it. He says that helps for him to say something and pause, and not to be afraid that a little word here and there will be inserted. While I do admire the accuracy of the $300 microphone, I question its necessity.

I am using rather inexpensive microphones each of them with the headphones cost any place between $10-$15. So far, I believe they give me close to a 98% accuracy rate. Is there really a 2% gain that is worth me going and getting a 300 on microphone? Or to paraphrase that, if I'm getting 98% accuracy, my doctor friend is getting 99% accuracy. At the end of the day, he too has to scan his paragraphs to make sure that ‘the and that’ were not confuse with each other.

So we are talking about at most, a 1% differential. And when scanning One’s paragraph There's always that need to do a few corrections in their, does the one person really make much of the difference?

Now, as I've stated before -- by and large I do not plan to make corrections in the dictated paragraphs in his blog. This is meant to be, and it is random ramblings. For better or for worse. There are some mistakes that will occur because the microphone did not hear me clearly, or I did not enunciate and speak clear enough. But what I have found is that no matter how hard I try or don't try, some mistakes are simply inherent in the software. I can give you some examples of synonyms that will get mixed up here, but there is no need to do so. A you probably see it as you read this.

But yet, the bulk of the text here I am convinced, remains not only readable but also understandable. And that is a pleasure. Because my eyes are closed, my arms are folded, I'm simply talking into the microphone, and at the end of the day the end of the sheet, there's a whole page or two or three typed up.

And, by the way. There is a definite advantage to simply rambling with the microphone. The advantage is that the more you talk and save those files at the end of each session, the more the program adapts itself to you and the greater the accuracy is increased.

So I'm having a very good time. Enjoying it more and more. And you, the reader are probably -- nonexistent.

faster - blows my mind

Okay, it's time for another session in rapidfire dictation. So we went to visit deal today. What a city let me tell you! Beautiful beautiful houses, and a really clean and neat little town. Took a vehicle, rode over the, got there quicker than we thought, and boy oh boy what a show!

So here's the deal on Deal. It's right at the edge of the ocean. The beach is there which are run all across the horizon, are crystal clear clean sand, wonderful water, and an élite populace. I am not surprised what people go there. We met a very nice family from the city, who told us that they go there for the summers. They spent time there, either they rent a home or an apartment I don't know -- but they spend their summers there because after all it's right at the ocean and the water is fantastic!

So I have to tell you when you drive along the Garden State and you look all around you what you see a car's cause cars. We are all these people rushing to? I don't know the answer to that. But what I do know, is that there are many many people going towards the shore. Why you ask? Why, do they go to the shore? I must be submitted their choir from there that is worth it for them to make that kind of trip. So what is it you ask out to you right now whenever it is it works for me too, by by buy.

It is no way in the world that people use telephones or use the patient can have the exact same results. The people who use dictation software have the advantage of seeing their words appear before them on the screen that's a very advantage, because if you're writing a book or even writing an e-mail or even a regular letter. You need to have some form of veracity of your communication, not just in an oral form but also in the form. I do see that certain words are being skipped.

The word do was supplanted by the word Don't. Okay, I need to go to sleep now. Goodnight.

I had to go and correct this. It didn't have a title

Oh no. Do you think I gotta do it again.? Yes I am. I'm going to rattle rattle rattle now. I'm going to take literally three minutes and put down everything that comes to my mind. In the way I am doing it is just to talk talk talk. I don't even think I'm going to include commas. I think I'm just going to include.

I'll given

And there because I think it makes up the monotony but at least the program has to be able to the fast enough to catch what I'm saying and to transcribe it accurately.

Oh I don't care that makes mistakes. The program obviously is not fast enough to be able to catch every nuance that I see and say. I see it's a ready made some mistakes I can't help that. I'm not going to correct everything he I'm just simply going to talk. The computer is strong enough I've got sufficient memory that it should be able to handle all of this.

It's not easy to talk rapidfire. It's a training that I must do and I'm going to do and I'm doing it right now. I know the wisdom does necessarily come out of my mouth when I do this but I am not going to care at all. I am going to cares for quantity of words I'm writing a book after I need a fill up 600 pages. Doesn't matter with what.

Okay, so here's where it makes mistakes is the microphone to close to my mouth is that a possibility. I think you have to look for colors. I don't know what yellow and green mean. I would assume green means we're the sound is optimum. But then again, I don't know. I do know yellow comes a lot maybe yellow simply means that I'm not saying anything so as waiting for my words.

When I tried to bolster the microphone in the the volume settings I get a red signal. I assume that means it's simply too loud. I don't know why it cannot take that and use that as a modulation from my voice. But it must have some advantage of modulating my voice on its own and I have to let that happen and not get in its way!

How crummy will these words be? How much off the mark will they be? I don't think by much. And this is why: I have already trained his program to be very very accurate. I'm very proud of it. I really like it. And I must say that the doctor who suggested that I upgrade my version just as he has -- a good friend of mine -- how accurate and correct he was. It's funny but I guess these companies know what they're doing. But they do have a difference between one version and the other. And if the other was only 80% on 90% correct, and that makes for a lot of trouble let me tell you. Because after you talk an entire page it starts giving you these things likely to say I am fixing and it's in that says Richard Nixon you know there's a problem there.

But in this version is actually close to 98% correct -- and I will say in my own way that it has done that for me it has given me such tremendous accuracy. Then all I can say is that it makes a very big difference and I'm very proud and glad that I have a new version. I wonder, if I train it and train it and train it could I really up the ante there that I should never have to correct anything? I doubt it. I think there will always be it's in the bees and other little words here and there that sneak in and just simply create confusion I don't have much control over that.

There you go! I just knocked off another page. Oh I don't know why. But it works. And over to the blog you go!

Cherish the Word

Okay, Ocean flow is going to be the way to go. They will be so much wacky nonsense published here. Hey, you don't have to be reading this. I'm not some teenager that need your attention. I'm not some teenager that writes, "today, I am bored. I don't know what I will do. I am just yawning. I think I will turn over and go back to sleep. Life is so boring."

No, I am simply someone who is trying to see how quickly my dictation can go. Can I actually dictate 150 wpm? I don't think I can but I'm ready to give it a try. And the accuracy is important to me. If I have to stop every few minutes, or even less, to fix mistakes here with this software, and I have defeated my purpose. So I have to work in such a way that I do as little correcting as possible. And the only way that will happen is the more I speak and the clearer the program understands my diction.

OK, so what do I want to talk about? Do I want to comment on the news of the day? Do I want to give political prose, poetic thoughts, or other such nonsense?

I don't know. That's not important to me. What is more important to me is the rapidfire pronunciation of words clearly articulated and in such a way that I don't hesitate that much between them. Okay, I know this is sounding stupid, but hey I warned you, you don't have to be reading this nonsense.

And me? I'm like a child in a candy store. I am so excited to see my own words scroll quickly on the screen and not have to be dependent on the typing them. Not a big achievement or accomplishment to you perhaps, but to me, for reasons that I know and you will not, it is very important and significant.

So go words go. Fill up the screen if you're ultimate beauty. Allow yourself the flow like the ocean. Be like a Niagara Falls that falls in all of your splendor and rainbow coloration. That every letter be another droplets and every word be a cup of water. And every sentence the way, and every paragraph a lake. Let every page be a river, and every book in ocean.

Now come to the ocean with me. Comments of water and swim through the pages of wisdom and knowledge that have been collectively gathered by the great sages of old. Look at the teachings of yesteryear, the insights of the ancients, and a brilliant capacity of each generation to preserve its deepest thoughts in the written and printed word.

Cherish the word. It is our greatest treasure.

This blog will be for Ramble

Okay, another quickie.

If you're reading this, you are in for it. Because today is ramble day.

So you ask, what happens on ramble day? But of course you didn't ask that. Actually you didn't ask a thing here. By now, you have gotten bored and you probably moved onto the next page or the next blog somewhere else.

But if you haven't did you want to hear more here it goes. But if you haven't, and you want to hear more, here it goes.

I am just simply going to ramble. Because I believe an entire page can be filled up through speech in the course of, oh gosh, I hope three of four minutes. What purpose could there possibly be for reader to want to read this ramble? In truth, I have no idea. I enjoy it because I again, I enjoy seeing this program which is a speech dictation program, operating successfully.

I am not going to type. Typing is a hassle for me, and something that I do not do well. I have much more do I, pleasure, and simply successful fulfillment, when I'm able to dictate words and see them appear on the screen before me clearly and accurately.

And that is what is happening. Which is why I ramble. Now, my diction is most important and significant here. If I'd garbled words and mumble them under my breath, inevitably, they will come out accurately. And a better microphone would do me better. But I'm not about to spend money on one right now. And I am getting roughly 98% accuracy, I would say.

Now my dehumidifier just went on in this room. It is causing noise in the background. Will the software continued to pick up my voice clearly and precisely? Your guess is as good as mine. Well, not really. My guess is better than yours. Because I can observe the software, and you can't. You can only read the final product.

So this is a nice column already I would think -- in terms of length. This is what I would really consider not even fluff but just straw. The content is meaningless, and the entire purpose is to create mass. The entire purpose is quantity. Quality is insignificant and unimportant here.
So why do it?? Is this really without any sense to rhyme and reason?

The answer is: there is a purpose here. And the purpose is to get used to using the software is a tool for rapid dictation. And once that occurs and happens and I get used to it, then I will be able to use this for other things that I wish to.

OK, that's it for now. I'd like to find a nice picture to connect to each column in a blog. I think it gives the least little color and a little life. I will do that. Goodbye for now. I can't believe you stayed as long. I'm not sure if I should thank you, or question your sanity. But then again, you must be questioning mine.