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damaclese
08-25-2008, 09:34 AM
I just want to let everyone know that I finally found a way to make my speech recognition program work with the text box on banana.org!
Terribly sorry for the confusing text that I have generated in the past so hopefully in the future you'll be able to understand me better thank you for your patience and support! Pauly

harveyc
08-25-2008, 09:42 AM
Wow, that's great Pauly. I didn't realize it was a problem you had until someone was kind enough to give me a head's up since I had commented that I thought you were playing around with me/us. I'm sorry about that and hope this works out well for you!

One more thing that might help in cases where this program might not function properly - I've been using Firefox 3.0 as my browser for a couple of months and really like it. It does underline words it does not recognize as it has a built-in spell check program. That wouldn't take care of everything, but it might help some.

Best wishes,

Harvey

MediaHound
08-25-2008, 09:56 AM
Interesting!
What software are you using for that? Dragon Naturally Speaking, or something else?

mskitty38583
08-25-2008, 10:21 AM
pauly it is great to hear that you have it all hooked up and ready to go.....i didnt have a problem reading your post it seemed fine to me!

momoese
08-25-2008, 10:28 AM
I don't recall hearing you say what your issue with spelling was. I always thought you just spoke a foreign language and were trying the best you could to speak English.

island cassie
08-25-2008, 11:47 AM
Pauly - never had a problem with your posts, but nice to hear you have some good new "stuff" (technical term!).

Cassie

chong
08-25-2008, 01:23 PM
I didn't have a problem with your posts before. And I have said that before, too. Afterwards, I believe that you said that you had dyslexia, which explained your situation. But I was surprised by your recent posts because they didn't look like the ones you posted before. I thought maybe that you had taken some medication. I was right. It was medication for your computer!

damaclese
08-25-2008, 06:03 PM
Interesting!
What software are you using for that? Dragon Naturally Speaking, or something else? windows speech recognition. I used to use dragon. but I abandon it because frankly it made so many typos that it was taking for ever to Write a reply or even a simple e-mail. I find windows speech recognition to be one of the better programs I've tried. And naturally being that it's free I find that even better!LOL

damaclese
08-25-2008, 06:10 PM
pauly it is great to hear that you have it all hooked up and ready to go.....i didnt have a problem reading your post it seemed fine to me!
Thank you mskitty but apparently some people did! As they quite clearly let me know in the open forum. This of course caused me a great deal of discomfort. Being one not to take things sitting down I decided to get proactive and and fix this darn program. As I always feel a great deal of personal embarrassment when people point out my spelling problems.

damaclese
08-25-2008, 06:12 PM
I don't recall hearing you say what your issue with spelling was. I always thought you just spoke a foreign language and were trying the best you could to speak English.
I have Disgraphea

damaclese
08-25-2008, 06:18 PM
I didn't have a problem with your posts before. And I have said that before, too. Afterwards, I believe that you said that you had dyslexia, which explained your situation. But I was surprised by your recent posts because they didn't look like the ones you posted before. I thought maybe that you had taken some medication. I was right. It was medication for your computer! yes I am sorry about the text. As recently I've been under great deal of stress. this no doubt has made my spelling worse. And am sorry to say that sometimes I simply do not bother to spell check what I've written obviously. it quite Draining so I hit the send button and hope that the best.

island cassie
08-25-2008, 06:25 PM
Pauly - we love you, and it wasn't a problem!!! :2745:

harveyc
08-25-2008, 06:27 PM
Pauly, I imagine others like myself had no clue what was up. At one time I thought you were using some short-cut language like some folks use when doing text messaging, etc. that is quite foreign to someone like me that is feeling old some of the time (though not as old as Chong!).

I just read this Dysgraphia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia) and I see it has many forms and I can only imagine at how frustrating it is for you at times. I'm sorry for once making a post and asking you about it as that probably caused additional stress for you and that was not my intent.

Like I posted in a thread on the ship wreckers last night, many of us have it easy in ways we often take for granted. I hope we can help if, but no other means, with our support.

I don't know if you'd be comfortable in doing so, but maybe putting a link or comment in the signature line would help avoid dummies like me commenting on any spelling mistakes. We can figure out what you're saying fine, it can just be puzzling to understand what is behind it.

Best wishes,

Harvey

chong
08-25-2008, 07:32 PM
Harvey,
Who are you calling OLD ? ? ? ? ? ? Sorry, I forget.

harveyc
08-25-2008, 07:37 PM
Hey, you were fair game. Around the time I had my birthday and you told me misskitty missed your birthday and you told me that you were much older than me! ;)

Randy4ut
08-25-2008, 08:41 PM
Pauly,
Even though there were times that it was difficult to understand some of your posts, I want you to know, that I for one, think your insights are an invaluable part of this great board. I also want you to know that I think you and many others are what makes this board so great. I want to commend you on your efforts and to ask you to keep contributing here. Thanks for sharing this and enlightening some of us to the effects of dysgraphia.

stumpy4700
08-25-2008, 09:47 PM
Pauly,
Even though there were times that it was difficult to understand some of your posts, I want you to know, that I for one, think your insights are an invaluable part of this great board. I also want you to know that I think you and many others are what makes this board so great. I want to commend you on your efforts and to ask you to keep contributing here. Thanks for sharing this and enlightening some of us to the effects of dysgraphia.

Randy I couldn't have said it better myself..Pauly Thanks for being here!!!!!!:goteam::goteam:

buzzwinder
08-25-2008, 10:01 PM
Hey Pauly, Randy worded it very well, I also appreciate your insights on this forum, We're Family- THE NANNER CLAN!!!!!!!!!!! :woohoonaner::woohoonaner: :bananas_b

Dean W.
08-25-2008, 10:01 PM
Pauly, don't get to stressed over it. I don't think anybody meant any ill will towards you. Hope to continue seeing you post here.

chong
08-25-2008, 11:41 PM
Hey, you were fair game. Around the time I had my birthday and you told me misskitty missed your birthday and you told me that you were much older than me! ;)

I said that ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Hmmmmm, I might be having one of those senior moments, eh?

Chironex
08-26-2008, 02:41 AM
Dude!

Dean W.
08-26-2008, 08:43 AM
Here's a joke about getting older. There's two things I hate about getting older. The first is my memory and the second I forgot. :ha::ha::ha:

CookieCows
08-26-2008, 10:05 AM
Oh my gosh Pauly .... I just read about dysgraphia and saw symptoms I've had for as long as I can remember such as pain, problems holding onto the pen .. a pencil is easier for me. I always have my husband write out checks in the store if he's with me as it's embarrassingly slow for me and the stress is huge which causes me to get real sloppy and the pen will slip even more.

One of my daughters has symptoms of both dyslexia and dysgraphia. She was in special ed in elementry school for reading comprehension. She has ADHD and after going to a psycologist was able to get her spelling lists shortened but it didn't help much. No one ever thought of dyslexia as after about 3rd grade she finally started turning her problem letters around the right way. I've always felt like I had to defend and protect her during school but thought it was all ADHD. Each year was the same problems with a new teacher. NOW she's 22yrs. and came up to me afew weeks ago and told me that she is wondering if she has dyslexia as she's been reading about it.

I was able to understand most of your spelling as I have spent so many years reading my daughters which is similar. If you continue to have problems with voice recognition software let me know and I can ask my step-mother what she uses. She doesn't have use of her sight and works for social services teaching people that have gone blind how to manage.

Now because of your thread I'm learning about dysgraphia ... and learning that all this is hereditary. You just helped enlighten some people way out here in Kentucky! Thank you!

Deb

dablo93
08-26-2008, 10:13 AM
thats great to hear pauly, im happy for you!
I never had problems with your way of typing ;)

damaclese
08-26-2008, 08:01 PM
Oh my gosh Pauly .... I just read about dysgraphia and saw symptoms I've had for as long as I can remember such as pain, problems holding onto the pen .. a pencil is easier for me. I always have my husband write out checks in the store if he's with me as it's embarrassingly slow for me and the stress is huge which causes me to get real sloppy and the pen will slip even more.

One of my daughters has symptoms of both dyslexia and dysgraphia. She was in special ed in elementry school for reading comprehension. She has ADHD and after going to a psycologist was able to get her spelling lists shortened but it didn't help much. No one ever thought of dyslexia as after about 3rd grade she finally started turning her problem letters around the right way. I've always felt like I had to defend and protect her during school but thought it was all ADHD. Each year was the same problems with a new teacher. NOW she's 22yrs. and came up to me afew weeks ago and told me that she is wondering if she has dyslexia as she's been reading about it.

I was able to understand most of your spelling as I have spent so many years reading my daughters which is similar. If you continue to have problems with voice recognition software let me know and I can ask my step-mother what she uses. She doesn't have use of her sight and works for social services teaching people that have gone blind how to manage.

Now because of your thread I'm learning about dysgraphia ... and learning that all this is hereditary. You just helped enlighten some people way out here in Kentucky! Thank you!

Deb thank you so much for sharing that with me I certainly hearing of the pain that you experience a regards to dyslexia. I definitely had experience this fired from jobs missed out on promotions and lost raises. I avoid writing notes at work at all costs. Because no matter how intelligently I converse with people as soon as they see in note there opinion of me completely changes usually from that point forward I am considered stupid and often talk down to amongst the more ignorant people that I work with degrading jokes will be told behind my back but I will say this sumof the most famous people in history where dyslexsics Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,Cher,George Herbert Walker Bush,George Burns,Albert Einstein,Woodrow Wilson,Thomas Alva Edison andLeonardo da Vinci just to name a few. So in the company of these great people I hold my head high and I will never tolerate ignorance bigotry rudeness or being shoved in that little box that everyone likes to shove people in! Because damn it I have an IQ in the 98th percentile and I am smarter than 98% of the entire world population and if people want to think I'm dumb then that's their problem.!!! So don't you feel bad because you have to ask your husband to write a check it's unimportant I can tell from the conversations I've had with you in the past that your thoughtful and considerate and loving and damn it a good gardener and that's all that's important.! Pauly

CookieCows
08-26-2008, 08:47 PM
Thanks Pauly! You've sure opened up a lot to think about by sharing your own experiences and I have a lot of reading and learning to do now.

Gardening really is theraputic! Each new plant I learn to grow sucessfully.... those are the moments! :0489:

Thanks again,
Deb