Thanks, Dan, for your thorough information!
Dan Lucas wrote:
If you speak in short bursts with long pauses ("Operating profit increased by... 14% in the first half of... The fiscal year ending March 2021...") then the software will not work at its best.
This may have been what was tripping me up during my stab at dictation. I was approaching it a lot like I approach typing, which is thinking basically a word or a few words ahead of what I'm currently writing and going in small chunks. I think I will try it out on Mac again (and maybe with the built-in dictation in Windows too) and see if sticking to whole sentences makes it go more smoothly.
Chris S wrote:
If you work for agencies using TMs and MT, or do manuals with lots of diagrams or scanned pdfs with a million stray tags, Dragon will be next to useless. It’s crap for editing.
This is an important point for me to consider, since I do a fair amount of post-editing for agencies that use TMs/MT, AND I translate a good number of manuals. The editing and post-editing work is where I could see a pen tablet/stylus touchpad coming in more than dictation, since I often find that both the mouse and the keyboard have annoying limitations/quirks when it comes to quickly and accurately selecting text to replace, move, or remove. Whether a stylus would provide a better experience, though, is of course the million-dollar question.