What Is The Best Speech To Text Software?

09/08/11 by Briluki | Affiliate Marketing, Tools | 1 Comment »

Dragon Speech To Text

“My name is Briluki and I’m a one finger typist..” Yes, it feels like I should go to typist meetings and confess my one finger addiction but Dragon speech to text cured me.

Being a “one finger typist” I find writing posts and articles a tiresome task and it seems to take forever. Last month I decided it was time to do something about it and so embarked on a tutorial on typing … boooooring … just how typists learn is beyond me. “There must be a better way in this technology age” thought I, and then I discovered that the speech to text programs I had tried years ago had advanced dramatically. From the old I B M ViaVoice of years ago has evolved Dragon Naturally Speaking but was it worth the investment?

I read many reviews etc. but the only way to find out was to give it a try so I purchased Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 Premium. My new software duly arrived and was installed without a hitch on my PC. (I didn’t go for the Mac version as it was a lot more expensive for a trial run). I went through the set-up procedure and gave it a whirl only to find lots of errors in the transcript and was a bit disappointed. With all the rave reviews surely it should be better than a 50% mistake rate!

If everything else fails … read the instructions!! This ‘baby’ needs training to understand you and your accent and the most important thing is to give it the training it needs … after all, we didn’t learn to speak correctly without training at school. The software comes with a full training workbook and video on disc which explains everything and is a ‘must read’ if you want to get the best out of Dragon speech to text. The training book includes a user guide, correcting errors, recorded dictation, formatting, editing, computer control, voice shortcuts and lots more to get you to a 98% accuracy rate. It is NOT worth skipping the tutorial (like I did) and being disappointed with the results. The video is about 1 hour. As I said … if all else fails … read the instructions!

“So how did it go?” I hear you ask. I’m impressed. This is saving me loads of time and I can now even dictate to a recorder and then let Dragon speech to text write everything later. A fantastic time saver as I can now “write” blog posts in the car through my recorder. The software is still learning and getting better every time I use it and I am still amazed at the computer control function. Just say “Send Email To … ” and up it pops … amazing!

Dragon speech to text Pros:

• Speed. Speed. Speed.
• Hands Free
• Great for Blogs, emails, articles etc. In fact any windows program that has a cursor.

 Dragon speech to text Cons:

• Needs training straight out of the box.
• Takes a while to become accurate.
• Quite a big learning curve (but worth it).
• Can be frustrating to begin with.

One MOST IMPORTANT factor to getting the best from Dragon speech to text for your article writing is to do your corrections by voice. Dragon learns by your vocal commands and NOT by typed corrections. This can be a pain sometimes but as it gets better and better you will find it was all worth while as the corrections needed are fewer and fewer. I did most of the training by reading from a book into notepad then doing the corrections by voice and updating my voice profile. I have just convinced my technophobe wife to give it a try and she is current

Oh! And yes. This was 95% written using Dragon speech to text. The only bits I did manually were the logos, headlines, Google buttons and bullets. There probably is a way to do that as well but that’s for another day … I’m just only too pleased to stop the one finger dance.

So to sum up. My experience of Dragon text to speech started off badly because I failed to understand it properly but once I knew the “Way of the Dragon” I have been very impressed and have to give it 9/10. If you write a lot of articles and don’t mind the training time then I highly recommend you give Dragon speech to text a try.

 

 

Unstoppable Affiliate

08/22/11 by Briluki | Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing Training | No Comments »

Unstoppable Affiliate.

Unstoppable Affiliate is the new kid on the block when it comes to internet marketing courses. Produced and taught by Andrew Hansen, this course is the complete approach to Internet Marketing.   As you know (or at least I hope you do) there are some rubbish courses out there and anything that promises the “magic button” or thousands of dollars in a few days are just not worth looking at.  Any  emails purporting to “quick cash” … just delete or assign to the junk folder … there is no such thing.

On the other hand, there are some courses and instructors that are well worth listening to and Andrew Hansen is one of those instructors. No bull or spam. No rubbish teachings and no misleading.  Those are the principles he works to and this new course of his lives up to his principles. I bought it!

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The video clip below is just a very short example of Andrews teachings on finding a niche. I hope he doesn’t mind me showing this short clip as it is actually from his course but it will give you an idea of what is to come. Some of his methods are new to the point of never being heard of before and some you might know but I’m confident there is lots for everyone to learn and new ways of doing research that never fail.

 

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So what do you get for your money

with Unstoppable Affiliate?

 

Research: 11 videos … one video of overall theory, followed by a number of specific techniques for finding affiliate offers & niche markets.

Site Strategies: 10 videos about quickly creating quality sites.

Conversion Strategies: 12 videos on how to quickly create the best quality content for your new mini sites and how to structure your site so it can convert at a high rate.

Traffic Strategies : 13 videos about driving the right kind of visitors to your new mini site and watching them convert like crazy into affiliate commissions.

And more! This is the culmination of years of experience all rolled into a course that works and because of that, Unstoppable Affiliate is laid out in a particular order to give you the best shot of earning online. It is not advisable to skip any parts or think you know everything about a certain subject. There are lots of little gems in there that even the experienced will learn from so it is best to follow the full structure to get the most out of this course. It WILL show you how to make money online but you have to put in the effort.

There is no easy fix … it requires work on your part so if you are looking for a ‘push button’ system then good luck! They don’t exist. Finding good niches and keywords is the hardest part of this affiliate thing but Andrew makes life a whole lot easier by showing fantastic ways to get to the “nitty gritty” and to stop wasting time on niches that don’t earn.

Unstoppable Affiliate is a great follow-on from Elite Niche Research … I have both and finding niches just became another easy  fun task rather than a chore. For the price, this course is one of the best and most complete on the market at the moment and if you visit the main site and leave again, you get the offer to try it all out for $1.   ONE DOLLAR… you just can’t pass this up at that price for a full preview of all there is to gain with this course.

OK … I’d love you to buy from my links as I will get a small commission but I really, honestly have bought this myself and I honestly believe you will learn to make money by using all Andrews techniques. You can’t go far wrong with Unstoppable Affiliate if you want to create a long term business online.