TAPCUG Presidents' Column

July, 2010

Late Saturday night on October 2, 2010, my wife Mutsie and I returned home after traveling through four states visiting old friends and acquaintances. We co-hosted a military reunion of old helicopter pilots in Philadelphia, PA. There were excursions throughout the city of Philadelphia and we attended a RotorFest which was an all helicopter air show at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, PA. We had a wonderful time meeting old friends and rehashing old war stories with some enhancements since the last time they were told. The ordeal of traveling all those distances left us exhausted. It's taking several days for us to recover.

The presenter for our October meeting was a no show. We found out later that it was due to an unforeseen emergency. However John Wickliffe, our Program Chairperson had wisely prepared as an alternate presenter. John did a great job considering the circumstances. The topic for the October meeting was Dragon Naturally Speaking V.11. Maggie Smith our Data Line Editor wrote an excellent description of the topic, even though she was not at the meeting. She rarely misses a meeting in all the many years she has been with TAPCUG. I will quote her description verbatim.

     Dragon Naturally Speaking, V. 11
Dragon Naturally Speaking is the program where you talk and IT types!! After your learning sessions, (about seven or eight, I can‘t remember) your computer ̳learns‘ your voice, accent and inflections resulting in a program that can differentiate your spoken word of ̳tomato‘ from the word of ̳potato‘.

Your learning sessions also include the commands you will need to know to instruct your computer, such as ̳Edit, Select All. Bold, Italics.‘

 This program is great for people who have handicaps (arthritis, carpal tunnel, etc.) and are unable to type as well as they have in the past. A few of our members have been using Dragon Naturally for quite a few years and love the program!

Curtis Porée Jr.
President TAPCUG