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After reading Elizabeth’s post on Kboards, “1 Week Training My Dragon” I went ahead and bought my own Dragon.

The Dragon I’m referring to is Dragon NaturallySpeaking program that I can dictate to and will transcribe my ramblings. I was encouraged to purchase the program in the aim of writing more words. I waste a lot of time and it would be helpful if I could tape whenever I didn’t have a laptop around and have it transcribed later.

So far, my Dragon and I have worked together for about half an hour. He hasn’t shared his name with me yet. I didn’t see any increase pace, if anything it was the opposite. It was slow going and frustrating at times when I couldn’t make myself understood.

Despite the frustration, it was funny when I realized my Dragon couldn’t dictate “aunt” whenever I said it. Every time I would say the word I would get a completely different one instead. At one point Dragon typed “goat”.

Aunt. Goat. Aunt. Goat. Aunt. Goat. Aunt. Goat.

I really don’t hear myself pronouncing them the same at all!

I’m on a tight schedule at the moment so I don’t have much time to train my Dragon but I’m hoping I can after ten days. That’s my deadline for finishing my edits.