Could you dictate more of what required typing? Doesn't Duke provide you with an admin asst? or a student worker?
* have you looked into pro transcribers? (these websites are all dot-com: transcriptionstar; castingwords; transcriptionlive; productiontranscripts)
* could you phone a handful of virtual assistants, who would type out what you needed mturk; odesk Less efficient (and perhaps more costly) than voice recognition, but likely much less frustrating to use.
I'm guessing this video is addressed primarily to those you are in email touch with, possibly including students. I my institution (UK university) we are piloting other ways of communicating to reduce excessive email use, including using video like this one.
Tech columnist David Pogue uses Dragon NaturallySpeaking to dictate many of his articles for the New York Times. Might be worth a try!
devonblandin 5 months ago
who is this>>? what does he teach>?
GYKhasinnews 11 months ago
@GYKhasinnews This is Dan Ariely. He is a pianist...
iniminimni 11 months ago
Perhaps try using swype, maybe with a wacom tablet or something like that? (I kind of like the odesk idea too--could be very interesting as well!)
Good Luck!
by the way, where are the FAQs?
savesbabies 1 year ago
Could you dictate more of what required typing? Doesn't Duke provide you with an admin asst? or a student worker?
* have you looked into pro transcribers? (these websites are all dot-com: transcriptionstar; castingwords; transcriptionlive; productiontranscripts)
* could you phone a handful of virtual assistants, who would type out what you needed mturk; odesk Less efficient (and perhaps more costly) than voice recognition, but likely much less frustrating to use.
mischef 1 year ago
I'm guessing this video is addressed primarily to those you are in email touch with, possibly including students. I my institution (UK university) we are piloting other ways of communicating to reduce excessive email use, including using video like this one.
conferencereport 1 year ago
How about Dragon Speaking Naturally software?
Youtube video:
"Dragon 10 Preferred NaturallySpeaking Demo In Word"
LottLottie 1 year ago
Is it because of your accent that the voice recognition isn't really effective? Have you tried putting on a Californian accent?
LottLottie 1 year ago
I appreciate how open you are with your impairment. I could consider it inspiring to the disabled how candid you are.
My question: Why not put some of those brilliant MIT engineers to work in developing an interface to reduce your strain?
apotheosis00 1 year ago
Time to get an Android device. Voice input anywhere you can type.
audiowiz 1 year ago
It's so nice to hear an academic being so candid, but obviously very sad to hear about your hands. I hope you work out a way around the problem.
totalshowman 1 year ago 4
Totally understandable. Now if only we could get past the current speech recognition challenges that we have.
mphoregoeng 1 year ago
quit writing e-mails.......keep writing books.....i love your books.... =)
Panchasimo 1 year ago
Why not use speech recognition?
7point2 1 year ago