okay, so for those that are interested, this is my first blog using the voice recognition software that I have just installed on my computer. The software is called "DragonBar", and apparently it is the best piece of voice recognition software out there. Now I promise I am not going to edit this blog in any way, that includes punctuation and grammar. This is so that anyone who is reading this can see how good this piece of software really is. I remember about 10 years ago when I first came across voice recognition software, and I remember back then it took absolutely ages to program the system, and even then it did not really works very well. now I should probably talk about how the software works, and a few of the bugs I've noticed. On installation, like many other voice recognition programs, you are asked to read from a passage. Having finished reading, the program collates the data and probably using some clever piece of programming, learns to recognise your voice and subsequently allow you to almost immediately start dictating e-mails, document and other such pieces of text. Now I know what you're probably thinking, you're probably saying to yourself, I guess this is all very impressive but how long did it take you to program the computer? To be honest it actually only took about 10 minutes, and that was only the basic tutorial. there is a much more extended tutorial, and as you can see it is not totally necessary to do. Maybe down the road I will do it when I find the time. apart from dictating e-mails and other such documents, the software allows you to search for item on the web. now obviously this means the keyboard and mouse had not become obsolete, and are actually still an integral part of the interactive process between human and machine. But something tells me it is only a matter of time before even these tools will no longer be necessary.
talking of the future, I just recently went to see the new Star Trek movie. Now before I go on, you should know that I am quite a large fan of the Star Trek mythology. Therefore like many other Star Trek fans, I was going into this movie with quite high hopes. Now many people have already seen this movie, and so will not be surprised when I say that I thought the movie was awesome. This new instalment, I believe was meant to be more of a character driven story as it is set in between "Star Trek enterprise" and "Star Trek" the original series, and so had the task of introducing Capt Kirk, Spock and all the other favourites. the only thing I was sceptical about, was that the director was not a Star Trek fan, and neither were many of the cast. But having seen the movie I think this worked out for the best, because it meant that the characters could be introduced under a fresh light with no preconceptions and more importantly bad imitations. Now in the original Star Trek series, my favourite character was Spock because he was both a mix of human and alien and so was able to view situations from both sides of the table. in this new movie, Spock was once again a very well represented character, but I would have to say I prefer Capt Kirk himself this time. Now I'm not going to spoil the movie for anyone who has not seen it yet but I will urge them to go see it very soon. One thing I will say though is that you should go in with an open mind, and enjoy it for what it is, a fun family summer popcorn movie designed to introduce the Star Trek mythology to the next generation. Pun not intended :)
just one last thing before I go this whole document has taken me half an hour to write. Now that may not sound impressive to some, but normally something like this would take me about an hour maybe more to do.
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