Just speeded up my voice recognition software

To enter text using my computer, sometimes I type on the keyboard and sometimes I dictate into a microphone while running Dragon NaturallySpeaking, a voice recognition program. That program has gotten better and better at typing accurately what I say, but it has been disappointingly slow, waiting several seconds between when I speak and when it types. In the options menu, there is a slider that one can move left towards More Speed or right towards More Accuracy. I had it set near the middle and a little to the left, being a toward the middle and a little to the left sort of person. I want speed but also want accuracy, because correcting errors takes time.

This morning I searched online for how to get faster response time from Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I learned from a forum that with a relatively slow computer like mine, setting the slider towards More Accuracy has little benefit, so it is best to move the slider all the way to the far left toward the More Speed setting. I did, and I'm happy with the result. I dictated this post. The voice recognition software still makes a lot of mistakes -- like I said "did" and it wrote "dread" -- but no more of them than before. Now there is only a two or three second delay between my speaking and the program typing.

My typing speed is only in the high 20s to low 30s words per minute range, so I can get a lot more typing done by dictating, now that Dragon NaturallySpeaking does not stop to think for ten plus seconds before typing each time I say something. Now that the program is responding quickly I can be a more productive writer. Here come novels, stories, essays, emails, blog posts, and more.