Comments on: Research continues http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/ For People Who Like Type and Types Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:42:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Alan Schmitt http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-21281 Alan Schmitt Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:46:27 +0000 http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/#comment-21281 Well, the physical layout between azerty and qwerty keyboards is not that different on laptops (the azerty has one extra key, a smaller left shift (where the extra key is) and the return key is vertical instead of horizontal). I use an external keyboard with my laptop (the new bluetooth one, it's really very nice) that is qwerty and switching to the azerty one is really no trouble. But you may be talking about the logical key layout. Then I'll just have one word for you: Dvorak ;-) Well, the physical layout between azerty and qwerty keyboards is not that different on laptops (the azerty has one extra key, a smaller left shift (where the extra key is) and the return key is vertical instead of horizontal). I use an external keyboard with my laptop (the new bluetooth one, it’s really very nice) that is qwerty and switching to the azerty one is really no trouble.

But you may be talking about the logical key layout. Then I’ll just have one word for you: Dvorak ;-)

]]> By: washburn http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-21278 washburn Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:12:55 +0000 http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/#comment-21278 @Alan: Not to mention that if I bought it in Europe, I would probably have to put up with a funny keyboard layout :-) @Alan: Not to mention that if I bought it in Europe, I would probably have to put up with a funny keyboard layout :-)

]]> By: Alan Schmitt http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-21277 Alan Schmitt Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:02:52 +0000 http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/#comment-21277 I would definitely not buy a mac just for a new product, and not in Europe in any case (it's just way too expensive). I would definitely not buy a mac just for a new product, and not in Europe in any case (it’s just way too expensive).

]]> By: washburn http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-21264 washburn Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:11:52 +0000 http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/#comment-21264 @Alan: I probably would have tried using handwriting recognition for that message, but I had forgotten my laptop's power supply at home, so I was trying to use it only when I needed to reference some information only on the laptop. That e-mail was probably the most typing I did yesterday. Yes, I had actually heard that MacSpeech was licensing Nuance's technology. If it is priced anywhere near their current iListen product it will be vastly cheaper than Dragon Naturally Speaking Pro. Naturally Speaking Pro is the only version of Nuance's product with macro support, but MacSpeech claims MacSpeech Dictate has AppleScript support. I am told that if you can write macros for voice recognition it is possible to do some amount of programming via voice recognition. The only problems are (a) I haven't imported my iMac yet and (b) the website says that MacSpeech Dictate will only work on Intel Macs anyway. I had been thinking about buying a new Mac eventually, but I am not sure if now is the best time to be doing so financially. So I need to think about it. At the very least, I think I should wait to see what the reviews look like before I go out and buy a new Mac just to run the product. @Alan:
I probably would have tried using handwriting recognition for that message, but I had forgotten my laptop’s power supply at home, so I was trying to use it only when I needed to reference some information only on the laptop. That e-mail was probably the most typing I did yesterday.

Yes, I had actually heard that MacSpeech was licensing Nuance’s technology. If it is priced anywhere near their current iListen product it will be vastly cheaper than Dragon Naturally Speaking Pro. Naturally Speaking Pro is the only version of Nuance’s product with macro support, but MacSpeech claims MacSpeech Dictate has AppleScript support. I am told that if you can write macros for voice recognition it is possible to do some amount of programming via voice recognition. The only problems are (a) I haven’t imported my iMac yet and (b) the website says that MacSpeech Dictate will only work on Intel Macs anyway. I had been thinking about buying a new Mac eventually, but I am not sure if now is the best time to be doing so financially. So I need to think about it. At the very least, I think I should wait to see what the reviews look like before I go out and buy a new Mac just to run the product.

]]> By: Alan Schmitt http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-21258 Alan Schmitt Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:47:31 +0000 http://existentialtype.net/2008/01/21/research-continues/#comment-21258 Good luck about this. How did you manage to type your very long message to the Types mailing list? Using the handwriting recognition software? By the way, I don't know if you've heard but it was recently announced that Dragon Naturally Speaking was being ported to the Mac. This may be an alternative possibility for you. Good luck about this. How did you manage to type your very long message to the Types mailing list? Using the handwriting recognition software?

By the way, I don’t know if you’ve heard but it was recently announced that Dragon Naturally Speaking was being ported to the Mac. This may be an alternative possibility for you.

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