Comments on: Tech tools for garden writers

By: Elspeth Briscoe

Elspeth Briscoe — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:01:19 +0000

Excellent – keep up the two – they are more aligned than people think. You might enjoy this..http://gardendesigncourses.blogspot.com/

By: The StopWatch Gardener

The StopWatch Gardener — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:41:25 +0000

Hi Elspeth – Lovely to hear from you – I envy you! I’m still a copywriter, mostly re. IT, and strictly amateur on the gardening side, but blogging lets me unite the two somewhat.

By: Elspeth Briscoe

Elspeth Briscoe — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:43:40 +0000

Hi – I am a techy turned garden designer. Enjoying your blog!

By: Claire, Plantpassion

Claire, Plantpassion — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:50:11 +0000

Just to let you know that this is my first blog comment written with Mac speech dictate so I’ve taken your advice and I’m going to see how it works for me I’ve done five minutes training let’s see how good this comment comes out. not bad just got to learn how to do some punctuation now.

By: The StopWatch Gardener

The StopWatch Gardener — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:12:16 +0000

Claire – Thank you so much for the kind comments. DNS works for Mac but not as well as if it were working on a PC; I would say it’s worth a try, though. Try Googling the reviews of Dragon Naturally Speaking for Mac — MacSpeech Dictate — they sound positive enough to give it a go.

Martyn – Ditto, thanks for the nice words. DNS has a transcribe function…haven’t used it myself but plan to. You can activate the function to let it type away based on what you’ve pre-recorded. By the way take the trouble to do the ‘training’ on Dragon. Doesn’t take much time, improves the quality immensely. I especially love that you can train it to recognise your own unique vocabulary (a huge advantage for everything from botanical names to medical terms. One of the client newsletters I produce is about “neuroacanthocytosis”…DNS picks it up perfectly every time.) And those USB headsets are so worth the investment…I used a standard headset with disappointing results. Good luck!

By: Martyn Cox

Martyn Cox — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:53 +0000

Dragon NaturalSpeaking sounds fabulous – although I’m a fairly accomplished touch typer, I sometimes can’t keep up with my train of thought, so this could be just the thing for me. I don’t suppose you know of anything that can transcribe voice recordings? (by the way, love the look of your blog)

By: Claire, Plantpassion

Claire, Plantpassion — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:46:28 +0000

Love your blog, and I use Twitter and Google reader already, but I love the idea of using a voice recognition software, I often have ideas when i’m in gardens for my blog, I record them into my phone, but often don’t get round to typing them up, – only trouble is I use a mac, – do you / or anyone else, know a good equivalent to Dragon Naturally speaking?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:10:07 +0000

Thanks for the great tips!

I’m relatively new to your blog and have you in my google reader. So it definitely works!

Absolutely love your layout here and will be back to read more as google reminds me!

Keep up the great work!

Ryan (Ryan’s Garden)

By: Gloria Bonde

Gloria Bonde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:16:36 +0000

What a perfect blog theme for a writer! Love it. And, thanks for the ideas. I am so new to blogging. – Gloria