Re: Speech Recognition for Coding

["Leslie Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I came in on the middle of this conversation but thanks for the tip!  I have
tried everything so far and I even went so far as to buy one of the WACOM
art tablets.  That seemed to help but I am going to give the mouse swap a
try.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaw, David <dshaw@spartan.com>
To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, August 14, 2000 11:21 AM
Subject: RE: Speech Recognition for Coding


>Dave,
>
>Is your problem in both wrists or just one?  If it's just in your dominant
>hand, you may find that one of the best solutions is to switch your mouse
to
>your non-dominant hand.  Granted it's a pain to make the switch and learn
to
>use that hand with the mouse, but for me it made a huge difference.  My
>problem is chronic tendonitis rather than carpal tunnel, but I'm told that
>the response is about the same.
>
>Dave Shaw
>Spartan International, Inc.
>Spartanburg, SC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Keck [mailto:dkeck@idt.net]
>
>Feeling what might be the onset of carpal tunnel, I am looking for
>alternative ways to code.  Has anyone found a speech recognition product to
>be effective in reducing the use of one's wrist whilst coding ?  Yesterday
I
>purchased L & H Voice Express Professional V5.0, which I will evaluate for
>14 days before deciding whether to bring it back to Comp USA.  I would have
>tried IBM's product ViaVoice first, except it doesn't run on Windoze 2K,
and
>that' s what I've got.
>-Dave K
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