okay, here’s my first attempt at using a Mac dictate for dictation purposes. I’ve got the dog sitting next to me, snoring, the goofy headset on my head, the sun shining outside, and a bottle of water on my desk. So far it seems to be working okay. What is strange to note is that I actually speak differently than I write. Intellectually, I know we all do this, but hey — I figured I was different. Narcissism!

Well, it apparently carriage returns when I tell it to. Although if I were to actually use the words that I spoke to get the urge to return they wouldn’t be printed I would get a new paragraph. In fact, it tried to do it right there, so I had to speak very slowly to trick it into writing the words.

So that’s it. I’m not speaking particularly differently than I would on the telephone, and it’s a bit strange sitting here looking out the window and seeing the new words appear on the screen. They show up more quickly than I would’ve expected them to based on my previous experience with ViaVoice — a program which, in my opinion, colossally sucked.

Freaky! And I suppose I’ll have to get used all of this auto capitalization. I’m really much happier with my lowercase eyes. Yes, it typed “eyes.”