November is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel, which is about 175 pages. That is 1666.67 words a day, or a little over 69 words a minute. I think dictating a novel would count, too – if so, you know where to go for the transcription. (There just had to be a tie-in). If I try this, I am definitely dictating and having it transcribed.…
Read more »Found while researching misattribution of quotes to Oscar Wilde. (This conversation is merely alleged itself, closing the loop nicely.) Wilde had this exchange with artist and with James McNeill Whistler: Wilde: “I wish I had said that.” Whistler: “You will, Oscar, you will.”…
Read more »http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2012_01/arts_shapiro.html Found while researching misattribution of quotes to Oscar Wilde. (This conversation is merely alleged itself, closing the loop nicely.) Wilde had this exchange with artist and with James McNeill Whistler: Wilde: “I wish I had said that.” Whistler: “You will, Oscar, you will.”…
Read more »Today we launched Dropbox uploads in the store. Dropbox is a free service that syncs and backs up your files. It can also be use to share files easily - which is the bit of the service CastingWords is going to use. Using Dropbox you can upload your files to us, without “uploading” at all. Simply drop the file in the Apps/CastingWords subfolder, and it’ll be there waiting for you when you area ready to place your next order.…
Read more »I started studying Mandarin this year, and after a while I decided I wanted to listen to some Chinese podcasts to work on my language comprehension. I googled around and found PopupChinese. PopupChinese produces language learning podcasts in Mandrin that are fun and fresh - and a real change from the standard “Where is the bathroom” conversations used in most languange courses. And It’s accessible to beginners (as well as more advanced students of the language).…
Read more »There are many mic brands and models out there, too numerous to review here (and there are plenty of reviews already). The only one we can personally recommend from experience is a Shure SM57 – the audio industry’s workhorse – the mic of choice for the White House press room, touring musicians and countless radio station field reporters.
If you only need one mic, it is well worth the $99 – it will last for years and years.
… Read more »We’re rolling out improvements to our support process - to help keep you in the loop on your orders. We’ve now got a bunch of people tagging and prioritizing tickets as soon as the come in. This means that more of the time you’ll get the right person answering your mail the first time mail. And that should meaning faster resolutions to your problems. And we’ve add more people - so you’ll see faster response times and more names at the bottom of your mails :)…
Read more »Andy Ihnatko can’t get dragon to recognize George Carlin’s “7 dirty words” sketch The Review: Link …
Read more »Google announced on Nov 19 that they would start automatically captioning many YouTube videos using their Google Voice technology. This is great news for improving accessibility of videos. Although we believe that automated transcription has a ways to go before it is as good as human-powered transcription, we think that the more transcription there is, the better. In addition to automated captioning (which is for a subset of videos), you can upload a transcript for a video, and Google will figure out how to make the captions.…
Read more »Google to Caption YouTube Videos - NYTimes.com Google also introduced a related service to give anyone who uploads a video to YouTube the option of uploading as well a text file of the words spoken in the video. Google will turn the text file into captions, automatically matching the spoken words with the files.…
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