http://nat.org/blog/2004/12/perfect-speech-recognition/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://nat.org/blog/2004/12/perfect-speech-recognition/comment-page-1/#comment-5037 “It’s hard to wreck a nice beach” : rahul gaitonde dot org Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:32:57 +0000 http://www-new.nat.org/blog/?p=702#comment-5037 [...] Nat Friedman describes his experience using a student to take dictation for emails and code while recovering from a broken wrist: He sits at the other end of my desk on a separate computer while I conduct the machine with my left hand, jumping from mail to mail, opening buffers, reading web pages, and generally doing the interactive low-latency low-volume typing tasks myself. He can see everything I’m doing because my desktop is shared over the network. And when I need to enter a large block of text, well, I just start talking, he types, and the words appear on the screen. [...] [...] Nat Friedman describes his experience using a student to take dictation for emails and code while recovering from a broken wrist: He sits at the other end of my desk on a separate computer while I conduct the machine with my left hand, jumping from mail to mail, opening buffers, reading web pages, and generally doing the interactive low-latency low-volume typing tasks myself. He can see everything I’m doing because my desktop is shared over the network. And when I need to enter a large block of text, well, I just start talking, he types, and the words appear on the screen. [...]

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