Matthew Hogan: January 2008 Archives

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January 26, 2008

Your American English Accent Divined

For this side of the Atlantic people only, a test of American English regional accents. It came out correct for me, divining my Noo Yawk origins, although the results appear to be generically regional (N. East) in determining accent origin rather than very local. But for each of doze of y'all who may reckon to be fixin' to enjoy some soda pop (soda pap?) and do some regional American linguistics, pack yaw caah in the havid yad, and give it a try.

Posted by Matthew Hogan at 02:11 PM | Comments (9)
Filed Under: American Culture , Random Personal

January 13, 2008

Transcription Software q's: "Dragon Naturally Speaking"

Although I never met a dragon, and certainly not one which speaks naturally, there is software with a related name. If anyone has thoughts, suggestions, recommendations, advice, offers, counteroffers, estoppel, promises, considerations, puns, etc. on "Dragon Naturally Speaking" or any other software where one can drone on verbally and have it automatically typed out, please share. I mean, is it reasonably time-saving, or is it like state of the art OCR namely, generating gibberish sprinkled with occasional words, but doing so in this case for the vocal chords, rather than printed text?

Posted by Matthew Hogan at 10:41 PM | Comments (5)
Filed Under: Random Personal , Rants -- Technology