<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">I use voice recognition as frequently as possible including writing this email.<br><br>I find it very accurate using Google Voice on phone/tablet and on windows I either use the Microsoft voice recognition on windows 11 and on Windows 10 I use dragon naturally speaking.<br><br>I can't type as fast as I can talk. Dictation quality has improved dramatically over the last few years.<br><br>Right now, I am using Samsung's built-in voice recognition, and it I don't think is as accurate as Google, but it's still very good just the same.<br><br>The hard part with voice dictation on my phone and tablet is punctuation.<br><br>Dragon lets me dictate punctuation as I speak.<br><br>For those of you on windows 11 Microsoft now owns the company that makes dragon naturally speaking and they have adopted some of that technology into their voice software making it. A lot more accurate than in Windows 10.<br><br>MS key +H activates it.<br></div><div dir="auto"><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Drew King<br><br></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On April 11, 2023 5:02:16 PM EDT, Robert Primak <bobprimak@yahoo.com> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Harry, I've used handwriting on tablets, and I am very definitely not impressed. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It's cumbersome, inaccurate and wastes a lot of screen real estate compared with typed notes. When using anything digital, I prefer typing. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Please note, I also find voice to text very much the same as handwriting on a tablet -- slow, cumbersome and inadequate, and terribly inefficient in use of time and screen real estate. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at 04:55:21 PM EDT, Harry Forsdick <forsdick@gmail.com> wrote:
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If we could do this, we'd have the best of both worlds: less paper, better memory - analog or digital -- with the ability to search either.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>-- Harry</div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv5372501508gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#0b5394"><br clear="none"></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#0b5394"><br clear="none"></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left;"><br clear="none"></div><table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-left:0px;margin-right:auto;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.forsdick.com/resume/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Harry Forsdick</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lexingtonphotoscan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Lexington Photo Scanning</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://lexingtontmma.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Town Meeting Member Precinct 7</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">harry@forsdick.com</a><br clear="none"></font><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.forsdick.com/" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);">www.forsdick.com</a><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br clear="none"></font></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" width="5"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://goo.gl/xZXT2F" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">46 Burlington St.<br clear="none">Lexington, MA 02420</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="callto:17817996002" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">(781) 799-6002 (mobile)</a><br clear="none"><font color="#0b5394"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://meet.jit.si/HarryForsdick">meet.jit.si/HarryForsdick</a> (video)</font><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://forsdick.weebly.com/home/my-websites" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Click</a> to see my other websites<br clear="none"></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5372501508gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv5372501508gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 4:44 PM Paul Lewis <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jeplewis@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jeplewis@gmail.com">jeplewis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv5372501508gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:new serif;font-size:small;" class="yiv5372501508gmail_default">ChatGPT agrees with John.</div><div style="font-family:new serif;font-size:small;" class="yiv5372501508gmail_default">-P-</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5372501508gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv5372501508gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 3:46 PM Drew King (<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dking65@kingconsulting.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:dking65@kingconsulting.us">dking65@kingconsulting.us</a>) <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:dking65@kingconsulting.us" target="_blank" href="mailto:dking65@kingconsulting.us">dking65@kingconsulting.us</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv5372501508gmail_quote"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div>I agree.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Although, less paper is used each day. Not just for handwriting but in all aspects. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">If I could, I'd brick up my Mailbox so the postman couldn't deliver any more paper.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Digital will replace paper 100% at some point.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I used to use notepads to take notes every day, and I exchanged it for the evernote app. I can retrieve information on my tablet, on my phone, and on my computer. It's much more convenient and searchable than a bunch of notepads of paper.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div><div>-- <br clear="none">Drew King<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5372501508gmail_quote"><div>On April 11, 2023 2:34:22 PM EDT, <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a> wrote:</div><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv5372501508gmail_quote">
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