Navigating around hurdles spurs creativity:

[capri0mni]

So -- thanks to gordon_r_d, I figured out two things: a) how to fix the problem I was having with recording my voice, and b) how to record the computer synthesized voice that Dragon Dictate creates... (by switching between recording defaults)...

I've had this idea for a YouTube video for a semi-near-future science fiction fable (parable?) to explain how, exactly, "Disability" is actually a social construct... only, my personal voice would not be a good "character fit" for the narrator. A creepily soothing computer-generated "motherly" voice, however, calmly explaining the history of how "the eye color problem" became the greatest social burden of the current generation, however, is perfect.

Now, I just need to figure out how to navigate around Movie Maker's updated editing tools...

Comments

[pebblerocker]

So you speak your story, the computer turns it into text, then the computer voice reads out the text? That's tricky and very cool! It's almost like having a robot voice actor ready to read out any lines you want. And if a robot voice is the right actor for the story, it works perfectly.

How to train your dragon....

[capri0mni]

So you speak your story, the computer turns it into text, then the computer voice reads out the text?

Just so. Although the computer will read out any text you select, even if you've typed it normally.

The trickiest bit I'm finding is figuring out how the program interprets punctuation -- for example, I look at dashes as a sort of strong break in the flow of words (along with a change in inflection for the word or phrase following it), but Dragon's audio feature just ignores dashes as if they weren't there. It also seems to ignore paragraph breaks, when it comes to pauses.

So I'd punctuate a script for my "robot actor" a lot differently than I would for a human actor.