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CHAPTER 12 Speaking and Dictating s Using speech recognition can be a good way to get over writer's block. Imagine you're telling a friend what's next, then tell the computer. Henry James also dictated Author Henry James wrote his novels longhand-until 1896. Pain in his right wrist, probably from writer's cramp, led him to hire a stenographer so that he could write aloud. The switch to dictation changed his style. Wrote a biographer, "the spoken voice was to be heard henceforth in James's prose, not only in the rhythm and ultimate perfection of his verbal music, but in his use of colloquialisms, and in a greater indulgence in metaphor." Friends claimed they could pinpoint the exact chapter in What Maisie Knew when handwriting ended and dictation began (from Henry James: A Life, by Leon Edel). Summary: learning to dictate 1 Read to the computer to get used to talking to it. Review the tips on how to speak to Dragon NaturallySpeaking® to get the best possible accuracy while reading. 2 Compose simple sentences about the weather, then move on to dictating notes to friends. 3 Outline a letter or memo several paragraphs long. Dictate the letter from start to finish based on the outline. Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide 149