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I have had an issue with dictation software... I want a dictation software to read me what it typed on screen. Right now the software expects you to check what it wrote and you have to necessarily keep looking at the screen.

Call me lazy but I wish for a method where I could lay back, speak a sentence, wait for transcribing, listen to what was written and ahead I go.

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when I was writing my last novel draft using nuance dragon 15, it had the 'read that' command which would read the last phrase I inputted, but that wasnt enough since I had a wireless headset that let me wander the house talking to the computer, but still needed to see the screen to know if it got the dictation correctly.

I ended up fishing out a cheap $120 portable walmart windows laptop 2 in 1 and VNCing it into the desktop so i could see the screen, carrying that around with me worked.

my point exactly. all dictation softwares expect you to keep looking at the screen. your "I had a wireless headset that let me wander the house talking to the computer" is what i want a dictation software to do. sadly like you i am left unsatisfied

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