I gave a virtual talk at the always excellent AccessU conference late last month. I don’t use a computer keyboard to control a computer – instead I use a mix…

Given the times we’re in, tools for streaming content online have become more common and more important. A few months back I wrote about the “Use Original Sound” control in…

I’ve been working on a project for the past year or so that has to do with efficient silent input. When I use a computer to write, I use speech…

As online meetings, webinars, and online conferences become increasingly common, I’m finding that some tools I’ve used for other purposes are really good for taking notes online. The key to…

I went to a very well-managed remote conference last week – the Collaborative Journalism Summit (CJS). The CJS organizers used Zoom Webinar for the conference and Zoom Meetings for networking…

If you’re using Zoom for playing music, you’ll sound best to those you’re playing for if you use Original Sound. By default, Zoom is optimized for speaking, so it filters…

I get a lot of questions about how I use speech input. One of the most useful details of my setup is a fast on/off switch. It may seem like…

Speech input has always had a major drawback – it’s not silent. It might be before too long, though. Not being able to speak silently doesn’t matter so much when…

For the past three years I’ve been working with the folks at Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy to make temporal media – in this case oral…

I’ve used speech input for a long time, and so when someone in my orbit gets a hand injury, I tend to get questions about speech input. Here’s my advice….