Trying to Write with New "User Friendly" Technology (Ha!)

Someone that my DH works with told him that the speech recognition program works really well and that it would make writing so much easier as all I would have to do is tell the story and it would magically appear on the screen. Sounds good, doesn't it? Guess what? It's not quite as easy as that. The whole experience was kind of like trying to convince a tired and ornery two year old to take a nap. You start the program by ordering it to start listening. It ignored me. That should have been a warning sign.

First of all, the head set is made for people with much smaller heads than I have because the damn thing wouldn't stay on my head. The earpieces slid forward over my eyes, making it hard to see what the computer was writing (that may have been self-defense on its part, but I am not sure about that). Also, considering I don't hear through my eyes, it was something of an issue. Second, the microphone (which worked just fine during the test part of setting this whole thing up) suddenly didn't work so well and wouldn't stay in one place. It continuously hid itself under my chin like a shy child confronted with Santa for the first time. I must have readjusted it twenty times in as many minutes. So between trying to keep the headset on my head and out of my eyes, and trying to keep the microphone near my mouth, I ended up looking like a deranged telemarketer. I am sure the attitude that I was rapidly developing did nothing to dispell the illusion.

Also, the speech recognition program did not recognize Demon, Riot, Morgana, Bane, Daedalus, Serkan, Kaz, Dev or any other character name. I had to stop the program and spell the names every time. The program does not like to be corrected or to spell words. It wants to write what it likes and to heck with me. I was concerned when the program also did not recognize words like "the", "can't", or "and" as these are common words in the English language. Then the program decided that it didn't want to delete what it had written. Instead it printed out the commands "select sir can"  and then "delete sir can." Apparently my computer is also hard of hearing since it spent a lot of time asking, "What was that?"

It does not recognize swear words either.