so, i’m getting a little bit better with the speech recognition software. i’m going to try and dictate this entire post using it. The text capabilities are certainly within reason, and it’s getting better with unix commands.

It’s a little wonky at times though; for example, it’s got this persistent dialog box that tells you what status it’s in. I can dismiss this dialogue box, but as soon as i tell it to correct some text and i go to that dialog box, it comes back. This is really annoying. It lives on top of all of my windows, so it obscures my terminal sessions in part. And, frankly, once i dismiss it, i’d like it to stay dismissed.

but it does learn pretty quickly. And i can tell it things like ps, or etc, and now it understands them. and i can set my own phonetics for things that it doesn’t understand, which is very helpful – as i’m sure is obvious.

it’s still a little bit iffy in vi, but mostly it works pretty well. I’m actually very pleased with it thus far.