Dragon Dictate: Fast Track to Prolific Writing on Your Mac
By Jose John
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About this ebook
Would you like to write more, write fast, and write well?
Then this is the book for you. In "Dragon Dictate: Fast Track to Prolific Writing on Your Mac", you will learn how to use the Dragon Dictate application to convert your speech into text with speed and precision.
You'll also learn:
• how to optimize your Mac hardware for dictation
• how to speak so your Mac understands exactly what you say
• what you must remember in order to quickly edit your work
• how to control your writing software with your voice
• how to fix performance problems in Dragon Dictate
• how to make dictation work even when accuracy is low
• when to tap into the dictation feature built into Mac OS X
Jose John
Developer of Mac OS X apps, and author of several books.
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Dragon Dictate - Jose John
About this book
Would you like to write more, write fast, and write well? Then this is the book for you. In "Dragon Dictate: Fast Track to Prolific Writing on Your Mac", you will learn how to use the Dragon Dictate application to convert your speech into text with speed and precision. You'll also learn:
how to optimize your Mac hardware for dictation
how to speak so your Mac understands exactly what you say
what you must remember in order to quickly edit your work
how to control your writing software with your voice
how to fix performance problems in Dragon Dictate
how to make dictation work even when accuracy is low
when to tap into the dictation feature built into Mac OS X
Why Dictate?
Write Fast to Write Well
If you want to write more, you must learn to write fast. If you're getting started with writing, you should aim for at least 2,000 words a day. But if you want to be considered prolific, you should aim for 10,000 words a day. You can only hit that level when you trust what you write, when you put words on the page without hesitation, and when you enjoy the act of writing. You can develop these abilities by following the "free writing technique described in the classic book
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within" by Natalie Goldberg.
Good writing requires iteration i.e. you review & revise to make it better, over and over again. But it all starts with a first draft. And the most important rule is to create the first draft quickly. Let the words out - don't hesitate, don't edit.
Raymond Chandler said "The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them."
That’s a great image to keep in mind while writing. The first draft should be pulled out
of you. In order to do that, you need to convert your thoughts into written words as fast as