Triple Your Writing Speed Overnight (Win7)

by DeanSoto

Posted: 10 years ago 24 replies

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Not too long ago was looking for a way to increase the speed of my writing. Even though I'm a pretty fast typist, I find that I spend a ton of time writing articles. Not only that, I'm starting to feel the effects of repetitive stress in my left hand.

I had my eyes set up on some pretty expensive dictation software. Not mentioning the brand, it's definitely the most popular dictation software that's out there. The problem is I didn't want to fork out the cash to buy the application, not because I didn't think it be a good investment, but because reviews were mixed.

This is probably the only time I'd ever waited over a week to think about whether wanted to buy something or not. However, I'm definitely glad I waited.

I'm not sure why it's not that well known, but for Windows 7 users there is a fabulous speech recognition application that comes free with the operating system.

Just like with most dictation software, you have to train it. But, even on the first time using it I would say that it hit about 90% of the words that I spoke. In fact, this entire post is made using it.

Seriously, if you are looking to speed things up, it takes a little getting used to, but after a while it really helps.

The application itself is found in the control panel under Ease of Access.

Anyway, just wanted to give back to the community.

Edit: Here's the link to how to set it up: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ch-Recognition

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Elmar 10 years ago

Sounds like I need to upgrade to Win 7. I've been using google voice to transcribe my speech.
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- DeanSoto 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Elmar
  
  Sounds like I need to upgrade to Win 7. I've been using google voice to transcribe my speech.
  
  Yeah I tried that . Got some interesting results hehe. The ability to train and also to correct on the spot definitely makes a huge difference over time. However, the benefit of doing it via Google voice is that you don't stop and go. With win7 you really have to force yourself to just keep talking normally until you get to the end of a paragraph to then make quick corrections.
  
  So there is a benefit to using Google voice in that respect.
  
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YasirYar 10 years ago

Just looked up ease of access and not finding the speech to text feature. There is text to speech (narrator). Where did you find the speech to text?

Edit: Never mind. Found it. Very cool.
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wakins4u 10 years ago

Hey Dean,

Thanks for the heads-up! Wouldn't believe I've never clicked that Ease of Access link on my cpu b4!

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learnrope 10 years ago

Thanks Dean, a awesome share.
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- DeanSoto 10 years ago
  
  It is under "Speech Recognition".
  
  Glad to help.
  
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RevenueGal 10 years ago

That's pretty nifty...I may have to use this myself...so you can get it to convert your speech to text format?
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silverline

10 years ago

Thanks so much for the tip. I have been using Win 7. Never knew it has speech recognition.

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DeanSoto

10 years ago

Originally Posted by RevenueGal

That's pretty nifty...I may have to use this myself...so you can get it to convert your speech to text format?

Yup! You speak naturally and it writes it down. Now, the only thing is that for optimal speech recognition, you need to use notepad, wordpad, or Microsoft Word. Personally, I use notepad since I like doing everything in plain-text first. Then I copy and paste into forums, my blogs, etc.

You can use it right into the web, but it implements it in a different and cumbersome way. But if you use Microsoft apps, it is fantastic.

Originally Posted by silverline

Thanks so much for the tip. I have been using Win 7. Never knew it has speech recognition.

No problem. Me neither till recently. Not sure why they don't advertise it much. It is a really great tool. Average person speaks 300 words minute so it's definitely worth it.

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JamesLennon

10 years ago

I used to use that Dragon naturally speaking for work, once you get the hang of it it's pretty good but it is quite expensive

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DeanSoto 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Fixnotic

I used to use that Dragon naturally speaking for work, once you get the hang of it it's pretty good but it is quite expensive

Yeah, just like with the Win7 app, the key is to TRAIN the app. Both applications have the option to go through a training regimen with the app and it improves the success rate a lot. I'm sure Dragon is pretty accurate out of the box, but there are so many mixed reviews, and I don't see the benefit since the Win7 is insanely good for the price.
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Ian Jackson

10 years ago

Sorry, maybe being a bit dumb here, but please could someone expand and be more specific?

Exactly where is the speech to text? I can see "turn on narrator", but no speech to text :confused:

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DeanSoto

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Ian Jackson

As mentioned in an earlier post, it's called "Speech Recognition"

I should have left the link to the Microsoft tutorial, mea culpa, here you go: Set up Speech Recognition

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Ian Jackson 10 years ago

Yes, I waa being dumb! I was clicking on the two links under "ease of access", rather than eoa itself
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- DeanSoto 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Ian Jackson
  
  Yes, I waa being dumb! I was clicking on the two links under "ease of access", rather than eoa itself
  
  Haha, not dumb at all
  
  I should have put the link to the tutorial in the first place.
  
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Amy Harrop

10 years ago

I'm wondering how Win 7 speech recognition compares to Dragon Naturally Speaking, which I really like. I don't even have a computer with Win 7 on it yet, but definitely something to look into when I upgrade computers instead of upgrading Dragon, which gets expensive.

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IMAdam

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Amy Harrop

I've known about the built in to Win 7 speech recognition tool for a while and while it's good, I prefer Dragon Naturally Speaking. I own version 11.5 and it beats the windows tool hands down IMO.

After rebates, I ended up paying only $22.50 over the holidays.

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Brad Spencer 10 years ago

Dude killer tip...yea I bought that dictation software and barely ever used it. Sucks blowing money like that knowing this exists on my desktop.

Thanks for the share Dean!

Cheers,

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eldudebros 10 years ago

Thanks for the great share. I've been using Window 7 for years now and I have no idea they have this cool feature.
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traderbenji 10 years ago

Thanks for this, it doesn't really like my Australian accent. But I'm slowly training this beast.
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komplex Banned 10 years ago

I had forgot about this, this is awesome!
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Blakers 10 years ago

Yeah, thanks for the tip. I'm going to try this out tonight....love that this is standard with Windows 7.
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vegaskev 10 years ago

Thanks for the review. I've been considering using a dictation software but figured that the windows 7 version would suck and I haven't even tried it yet. Now I'm going to have to add it to my runners up list.
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- cashp0wer 10 years ago
  
  Thanks Dean - I probably never would have found that on my own. I will have to check it out and see how it works for me.
  
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