I used Scrivener's feature and the punctuation kind of sucked. It would insert big line breaks every time I said "new paragraph" and there were always spaces before the period.

On the upside, I could clearly see where I had edited...and where I had not. 🙂

My life is pretty silent - I spend most of it at my computer.

But speech is way too slow and way too intensive in energy use for now - maybe when the typing slows down. Or I need to work with an assistant to get stories down.

I know a bunch of people who dictate - but I catch typing mistakes AS I make them (most of the time), and I positively hate having to correct things later.

Never say never - but not now.

Sounds like you're past that point - great!

I was very happy to see how far it has come. It's helped me immensely. I can see myself using this a lot in the future.

Ellen, it's actually very easy to activate in Windows 11. Place your cursor in the text box that you want to use, and then hit the Windows logo key and H. That will bring up the software and you will get a box at the top of your screen. It's quite easy to use. In fact I just typed this using that function. Enjoy it.

I really need to start using voice-to-text. I know there is a way to get at it in Word, but I can't recall it offhand. I don't have a Dictate button. I'm still using Microsoft 11.

A friend had good luck with Dragon. I tried it on her machine. The results were humorous. Didn't look like Standard English at all.

I can easily see my mouth moving faster than my brain. LOL. Patience and practice, just like everything else.

I had the same problem with Dragon. that and the early versions of talk-to-text in Google Docs are what turned me off to dictation software. It's nice to see that the tech is finally maturing into something more useful.