[MV] Dictate Notepad issues

[Joseph Senecal]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 8:13 AM, revDAVE wrote:

> Anyway, can anyone else confirm that typing directly come in  
> backwards?

Yes, as far as I know it's always been that way. So I haven't used the  
notepad for a long time.
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> Also: My favorite way to work is a combination of talking and  
> corrective
> typing, as I find it cumbersome to do everything from speech. For me  
> it is
> easier to have content come from my mouth and repairs come from my  
> fingers.
> What about you? How do you folks like to work?

I'm often just typing (as I am now). When I use dictate I usually try  
to make corrections by voice (using training when it's Dictate that  
makes the mistake), when that doesn't work for some reason then I use  
the keyboard.
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> This approach seems to work fine in any regular word processor with  
> Dictate,
> but not in dictate notepad. So, are you suggesting that I simply use  
> other
> word processors for this purpose and not dictate notepad since it  
> currently
> can not handle this task?

That's what I'd do even if the notepad was working, since otherwise  
I'd have to copy and paste. The only reason I ever used the Notepad in  
IBM's ViaVoice was that was the only place I could do correction  
(training). Dictate doesn't have that limitation.

What the Notepad can do is edit existing text by voice. You copy and  
paste in the text you want to edit, say "Cache Document" (which  
triggers Dictate to treat this as text you've dictated), then edit  
away using your voice. So I'd say that Notepad more for those that  
cannot type, while the rest of us are better suited by using the  
applications we want to dictate into (or our favorite word processor  
if some application is problematic with Dictate).

Joe Senecal