5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter by Chris Fox

Author:Chris Fox [Fox, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781512047370
Amazon: 1512047376
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-06-18T05:00:00+00:00

Voice Dictation

I divide my writing career into two phases: before I learned about voice dictation, and after. My love-hate relationship with dictation began fifteen years ago. I thought it would be awesome. It wasn't. The apps were too clunky, too expensive, and their accuracy was abysmal. I abandoned dictation for many years, until I ran across Elizabeth Ann West's thread about training her Dragon on Kboards.com. It changed my life.

Voice dictation is insanely useful. The average person speaks at between 140-160 words per minute. Can you type that fast? I'm good, but I'm not THAT good. My top speed is about 120 words per minute, and there's no way I can sustain that for an entire hour. Unless I use voice dictation.

The majority of the times I've hit 5,000 words an hour it's been using Dragon Dictate. I'll admit it takes some getting used to. You need to speak your punctuation, which means you're saying sentences like this:

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