Better input?

["John McDermott" <jjm -at- jkintl -dot- com>]

Entering rough drafts for documents with a keyboard (QWERTY or Dvorak) has  
been standard practice since the days of mechanical typewriters. People  
have been doing this longer than we have been alive.

Maybe it is time for a change. I have tried recording the draft material  
and transcribing it myself: not too effecient. I have worked with  
third-party transcribers: most don't get the technical vocabulary. Speech  
recognition is looking like a good option -- I've been using Dragon.

Is anyone else doing this? I'm considering a UMPC or other smallish  
platform with speech recognition. Thoughts?

Is anyone using a good chord keyboard they're happy with? The IBM one  
looked beautiful and the reports of users were great, but it never "got  
out of the lab".

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
--john
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John McDermott, CPLP, CCP
Writer, Educator, Consultant
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