Saturday, July 22, 2017

New Toy

Vanilla is attempting a new approach to writing his blog posts. It works like this. Two weeks ago I purchased a piece of equipment that purports to be a cell phone for less than 20 bucks. I did not purchase any of the minutes for telephone usage but simply adapted the piece of equipment to serving as a handheld computer. I soon discovered that this machine has many amazing features including voice writing. Thus I sit here at my ease and dictate my story to my machine. I am so excited by this that I am hoping to carry this away from home and transmit my messages back to my base computer. Wow this thing is amazing!

6 comments:

Vee said...

What piece of equipment did you acquired that actually works as it is supposed to work?

Grace said...

All my devices, eve the tv remote, have voice/dictation capabilities but I just can't bring myself to talk to a remote!

Secondary Roads said...

I used to have "Dragon -- Naturally Speaking" on this computer. It worked okay, but typing is still easier for me.

vanilla said...

Vee, I will let you know.

Grace, agreed talking to machine seems to be a bit creepy.

Chuck, I prefer typing as well but with this device and its tiny touchpad speaking is much simpler than trying to find the keys.

Jim Grey said...

I really dislike "typing" on my phone and use voice dictation all the time. But I can't imagine writing a blog post that way -- I edit too much!!

vanilla said...

Jim, right; the editing does not go away. In fact the difficulty of the chore is exacerbated by the critter's choice of words to substitute for the ones apparently not in its dictionary. Case in point, writing a post in which i referred to Solomon's son, Rehoboam, it insisted and persisted in writing "redbone." haha