Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 07:20:53 06/19/02
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On June 19, 2002 at 09:15:23, Russell Reagan wrote: >On June 19, 2002 at 08:54:47, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >>P.S. Record your ideas > >Don't worry. I have a little pocket notebook that goes everywhere I go. At home >I have several regular sized notebooks. They're filling up fast :) > >Russell I have become interested in the Dragon Speech Recognition software for the computer. While searching related websites, I noticed that someone is selling a handheld digital recorder, which records your voice. The advantage of using this particular recorder seems to be that it can be used to provide an input, which the Dragon [or maybe other brand] software can translate easily into text. [A normal tape recorder is not so good for this.] This seems like a good idea and I'll try it soon. In the past, I used a normal, analog, miniature handheld tape recorder and then transcribed my words into text [on the computer] using a transcriber. That old way was VERY time-consuming. I did it anyway, and did accomplish something. But the new way sounds much better. At the time, I was not at all interested in computer chess, but was extremely interested in certain philosophical ideas. Whenever an idea occurred to me, I pulled my miniature tape recorder out of my pocket and recorded the idea before it escaped! Some people looked at me strangely, but I ignored them. You should be able to use this method yourself. Being a student, you may be on a tight budget . . . but it would be much better if you could use the Dragon software and the digital recorder if you can afford it. The time required for correcting speech recognition errors ought to be much less than the time for using a standard transcriber. [Wealthy people can send their tapes to a transcription service.] In this way, you can get your computer chess ideas down on paper and will not have to constantly worry about forgetting something. Incidentally, all the super great computer chess ideas in the world will come to nothing if not put into practice. At some point, you must do the grunge coding work. Bob D.
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