Deranged Dictation

SwypeI received Dragon Dictation on my phone for free when I bought the Swype keyboard app from Nuance.com and decided to use it to dictate an old manuscript into Evernote for editing and resurrection.  It has produced some interesting results I thought you’d be amused by.  I am, at least.

Think you can read the dictated versions below correctly? To read what I really said, hover your mouse over the green links below for the answer to pop up.

The dictated version:

Bestie Souper had walked in and proceeded to boost behind Rob. Rob’s neck Harris server has his eyes met with the Brody man’s for a split second.

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The dictated version:

There was only one face he was interested in seeing and he scanned the jam room in search of it.

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The dictated version:

She was forced to quit her steps to matches.

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The dictated version:

As he drove, Rob thought the six feelings.

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The dictated version:

Ranging from pain to trial. He had finally sent her.

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The dictated version:

She walked the smile through tall man dressed in formal wear

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The dictated version:

Two heartless windows stared from either side of the door and the whole façade slanted in perceptively here, . Elsewhere, the chlorine was surrounded by the same tree shadows

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An Author Spotlight

Me-smilingM.J. Joachim, who did a thoughtful review of Bend Me, Shape Me recently, invited me to do a guest post about who I am, a theme you may have seen a few times here in this blog.

I wouldn’t be the woman who can now look at the darkness and deal with it if I hadn’t first been the woman who believed there is love and laughter and grace in the world.

I feel blessed to have “double vision” like this. While I still don’t see the whole elephant, knowing that there is more to life than just the trunk I am blindly clinging to has made me a more curious, more accepting person than I feel I would be otherwise. At least I know the truth of how we all see “but a poor reflection as in a mirror” and I fully look forward to seeing “face to face.” “Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” (1 Corinthians 13:12)

Read more on M.J. Joachim’s Writing Tips