Like most lawyers, I spend the day sitting in front of a computer. I juggle emails, documents, blog posts and in general just about everything word-related. Until recently, I used my keyboard for getting thoughts from my head to my computer.
Finally, I took a plunge and bought Save 10% on MacSpeech Dictate (aff link), a cool program from the folks who make Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. I’d used Dragon ages ago, and played with it just as I went to the Mac; it was very good, but not available for my new machine.
But my online content creation duties were starting to wear me down, causing my fingers to ache each night from the strain. I got worried about carpal tunnel syndrome and related repetitive stress injuries. I love to cook dinner at night, and the thought of that being taken away from me wasn’t too appealing.
Unfortunately, there was one major problem. A problem that had kept me from buying the program for a year.
