Monday I installed Dragon Naturally Speaking (word recognition and writing program) onto the tiny computer.  Yesterday I “trained” it and started to write my client notes by speaking into the computer.  So far, I guess, I haven’t trained it very well.  Although it is amazing when it gets things right, it is very frustrating when it does not understand me.  I think I have used the commands “scratch that,”  “correct that,” and “spell that” more than I have dictated text!!  I can see some progress, especially with the phrases I use often.  When we get to those, the machine is right on almost all the time and pretty rapid.   I am discovering that I don’t say the consonants F, B, H and N very clearly and I tend to let final consonants fade away (you realize that when the computer writes “ten” and you said “tent” or you say “had” and it writes “ad”.  Right now I could probably type in my notes faster than speaking them, but I will keep working on it, and, hopefully, I will soon be able to talk into the computer efficiently.  In the meantime, it is mostly fun, (especially when what the computer types sounds sort of like what you said but it isn’t quite right) with some frustration mixed in.