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Originally Posted by freebeard
Why not step up and get a real computer? I like the Mini -- no camera or microphone unless one is plugged in.
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Yes, let me bring in a mini each day to record lectures.
I will plug a big and fancy microphone into it!
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I tried to force myself to use Siri, and gave up. It's been a few years so maybe I should try it again. At the time, I feel like it would get maybe 10% of my dictation wrong.
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I have been amazed when my sister does text-to-speak with her iPhone. It gets a few things wrong, but she can tell it to correct it, and then tell it to send.
I dictate on my Samsung and it is hit-or-miss.
I feel that it is more distracting than texting and I am unsure that I can currently have it read my messages out loud, but maybe I finally made that work.
The last few times I tried it said it didn't have permission.
I said "I give you permission!"
Of course, it wasn't that easy.
If I told it to correct anything it would write out my instructions.
It usually writes out the specified punctuation instead of actually inserting it.
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All that said, I can type at least as fast as I can think. If I'm not thinking, I can type much faster. The correct tool for efficiently writing is a keyboard.
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When I bought my first laptop, two professors told me to put it away, and in 2006 I was just writing notes.
One professor ranted about politics that had nothing to do with Mexican literature from the 1900s, so I typed up the materials she gave us, which were scans of stories that had been photocopied far too many times.
However, I brought my laptop to physics, and immediately gave up.
A notepad and pencil were the correct tools.
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Tell me more about that diagnosis, as that's something I've been threatening to address too. I'm quite pessimistic much can be done, as fundamentally rewiring a 40 year old brain is no simple matter, but perhaps there are strategies to leverage the positive aspects of my attention.
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Drugs.
Everyone told me [condescendingly]"They don't accommodate for ADHD in grad school! They don't provide notetakers!"
Their website says they totally accommodate, including providing notetakers, I just need a current evaluation.