


Some have physical challenges, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, that make it difficult or impossible to use a keyboard. It might work for you.įor some writers, dictation had better work. I suggest you take all her complaints to heart – which I did in my previous article. In 2012, YA novelist Justine Larbalestier wrote a blog post Why I Cannot Write a Novel With Voice Recognition Software and updated it three times since. The speed bottleneck is often in your head, not your fingers. But that doesn’t matter much if you can’t think faster than you can type. Maybe you can dictate faster than typing.

For many writers, dictating a book instead of typing it just doesn’t work. You have a right to disagree with my previous post Writing with Speech Recognition Software. Can you write a book or a novel with speech recognition software? By Michael
