Dragon Naturally Speaking Makes NaNoWriMo Easier as long as you have Ideas!
This month is drawing to a close and I have been writing a novel using Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 and my pocket Sony MP3 Recorder. This setup has worked fantastically for me. Its about 26 hours until the deadline for NaNoWriMo expires (and I’m writing another blog article instead of finishing the contest).
To date I have written 45,022 words. It takes 50,000 words to finish the contest. I’m almost done, and only need 5,000 words to finish. I write that much today in three sessions (10 minutes, 10 minutes and 23 minutes).
I will probably finish tonight before I go to bed. Tomorrow, we are hitting the road for a Thanksgiving drive back from Illinois to North Carolina. I could write quite a bit during that drive, but I’m not sure if I can concentrate with Scooby Doo playing on the kids DVD player in my ear.
Plus, I need to insure that I get the book loaded up into the system and confirmed before the midnight deadline tomorrow night.
Anyway, if you look at my chart above, you will see the ‘lurches’ in my writing activity. That is not because I worked diligently everyday, completing 1700 words per day. No, with Dragon and my poor habits and lack of planning and good distractions from the family, tend to miss a few days and then write several thousand words.
I often feel like I actually start writing after I’ve thought about a chapter or scene or two for a couple of days and then the idea just spills out of me as I write it up in a burst of 2-5 thousand words. 
I suspect that the book I’m writing will actually end up being about 250,000 words, so its going to be a long fun winter. If I keep eating as much as I did this Thanksgiving, then I’m going to have to take the summer off to get into shape, or go get lyposuction or a Apidexin prescription or just shoot to become the worlds fattest man.
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I often feel like I actually start writing after I’ve thought about a chapter or scene or two for a couple of days and then the idea just spills out of me as I write it up in a burst of 2-5 thousand words.
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Would you be able to tell me how one can download voice email into Dragon Naturally Speaking 10?
Thanks,
Kay
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January 16th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Hi Kay,
I have never tried to download voicemail into Dragon Naturally Speaking before. However, if you convert your voice mail file into an acceptable format (.wav) file or some of the allowed .mp3 files then you could run those files through Dragon Naturally Speaking’s transcription tool.
I have to admit that unless you receive voicemails that are very long, I do not believe that Dragon would be a good tool to achieve a transcription as you would probably receive many different voices and there is not a batch file processing option. You’d have to manually walk each file through Dragon.
I would love to see Dragon evolve some day and be able to do this, but I don’t think it would deliver the results you are looking for in its current version.
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