I've just installed some new software: Nuance Dragon Naturally Speaking 13 Premium, an early Christmas present from wonderful Paul. I am psyched! Dragon is speech recognition software that turns your spoken words into text which appears before your eyes in seconds. In other words, you can think out loud.It comes with headphones and a microphone, but you can also use the microphone built into your laptop. You teach it your voice, accent, vocal cadences, words and phrases.....I hope it enjoys meeting Chatty Elizabeth!

Later: We have met. This is my first post. I had the audacity to put it on Facebook!

Good morning to everybody out there in Facebook land. Today’s entry is brought to you by the Dragon Lady- proud owner of nuance Dragon voice recognition software. This post is being dictated into the microphone of my Toshiba, and I’m sitting here drinking my coffee and enjoying the thrill of watching text appear on my screen. I don’t suppose that this software will be Facebook friendly enough to highlight Paul Dale Anderson’s name, but here’s a shout out to him anyway – because he gave the software to me is an early Christmas present. He knows what a chatterbox I am and how much I love to talk, and so this is right up my alley. I wonder what would happen if I tried to talk in a British accent. What’s how we jolly swags? Well, that didn’t work. I was trying to say the phrase what HO, YE jolly swags? Obviously, I have to go back through the instructions and learn how to make corrections. Because I’m lazy, I only read the directions when all else fails. One thing I absolutely have to learn is how to put things in quotation marks. Anyhow, it is 20 minutes after 12 noon which means it’s Sunday afternoon. Marie wants to go to the waffle house for breakfast. Waffle house should be capitalized. Paul, I promise you that next time I use this I will have learned how to capitalize words within a sentence. I’m having my coffee, and I am so excited about having this software! It’s like magic. How I wish I’d had it 40 years ago when I used to sit in my apartment in jabber my innermost thoughts into a cassette player. I still have those tapes, and I suppose I ought to have them digitized for posterity. Now, I will go ahead and paste this into my Facebook status from the word document I’m using; I do have a sneaking suspicion that this wonderful nuance Dragon voice recognition software will probably interface with Facebook. I must have a pretty normal voice, because I’m not making any effort to sound articulate – and Dragon Lady still understands me. Have a deep need to be understood, so I am sure that nuance Dragon, henceforth known as Dragon Lady, will become my partner in crime as well as my friend and soulmate. One moment look up the word henceforth. Yay, I was right – it means in the future. A note: since I’ve joined the ranks of Ville… Boy that sure didn’t make sense… trying to was that not only do I forget what words mean to spell them. I wonder what will next. The software is very patient. I’m not used to that in humans. It actually waits for to take a sip of coffee; it sits there, politely, ready for my jabbering to resume. I hope all of you a scintillating day, and for stars to any of you who actually read this entire post. Signing off now – Elizabeth Aisling lidar, oh dear it thinks fly Gar… LYG a… Oh no what am I going to do? It doesn’t know Swedish. My last name is not DAR, nor is it FLY GA are. Help! I will try one more time. My last name is spelled FLYGARE. Tomorrow, I will train Dragon Lady to spell my last name the capital letter and the rest of the letters in lower case. One more thing. I often go by Liz the. That is not Liz the. The spelling is: LIZ Z a. Trying again – I am frustrated. Lizza! I did it! I taught Dragon Lady my name! I’m certainly glad that it is not Henrietta Margaretta Prudencia Deborah Mundy Biggs Cox. How nice – it did not write cocks.