The Dragon
Well, I got this new app for my hour-long car ride both ways to work. The app works like this: you talk into it and it writes out the text of what you say. It’s called Dragon. So the directions say ‘speak normally.’ Well, I did. I tried to write this poem by talking into the phone:
“I wrote this for you, I didn't write the home to a music, I wrote it to understand myself.
I didn't write this home because I know you I wrote it because I don't know myself.
I didn't write this home because I know you are there but only because I don't know where I. Next paragraph I didn't write this poem because I know why I am here I wrote it because you might know why I am here.
I write to: I didn't write the whole I didn't write home because there is no God I wrote it because God wrote me. Thanks for your
I write this home because I know what you saying I wrote it because I don't say it enough
I didn't write this poem because I remember my life I rolled it because I made up most of my memory I write to home because I am a full I wrote it I write this: because I am a poet I rode it I wrote it because no one knows he embraces at home yet yet it's all wrong in all that I write to write”
So that’s what it thought I said. Every time I said ‘poem’ it wrote ‘home.’
So I was thinking it’s because I must have an Indian accent. I mean my parents who raised me are from India, it only makes sense. However, today, I had my white male friend try to use Dragon. Wanna see what happened?:
“the whole process does me privately hopeful to say hold home that I know what I wrote to Europe as the parties did not take what you're saying right was writing your own home before the study this is a Building building or buildings built like a one week free I just wonder if I do something like this is a safety what it is this is a safety thing world I would order charts look like it is filled out with I wondered with wonderful chart language is filled out with wonderful joy like with the field of wonderful joy on if you look at my school books. This is if I use it I will still like it will feel like I'll know what I was saying you”
So it all started when he said, “This is a test.” Well, it wrote, “This is a building.” And it only got better from there. The point is, I’m on a free trial for one week, should I cancel it? I mean the thing is, I need to use the time that I am driving in a productive way. I mean I’ll know when I say poem, it writes home, right?
I also bought a Rosetta Stone app for three months, none of which were free, to learn Hindi on my drive to work. So I have invested money in furthering myself as a human while I drive, however, I have continued to listen to my playlist on Spotify the entire time I’m driving while singing along like a rock star.
What does this say about me? I am unable to keep a savings account, every month I clean it out. Usually for clothes and jewelry, but now let’s include frivolous apps that don’t really work.
What I think is really funny, is that my friend’s talk to text came out more bizarre than mine. What exactly is going on with The Dragon? My sister said it’s fabulous! She writes medical charts with it! Has she checked those charts? I mean, how do they pick up strange names and long disease names, if they can’t pick up the word, ‘poem?’
Well, I actually asked her how it works for her, apparently, they have a medical one that is set up to understand medical terminology. She said it also gets used to your pronunciation of words and can pick them up after a while. I'm still suspicious. She also told me she doesn't check if the dragon picked up her medical charts correctly. She once said fuck and it came out in her chart and the doctor called her and asked her what was up.
Questions, I have questions. My friend says he has an app called, ‘Title’ created by the great Jay-Z for music. Apparently, Jay-Z pays his artists more money. Supposedly.
I do have another app that is actually free but ends up costing me all of my money. It is the department store called Macy's. Maybe you’ve heard of it. They have an absolutely amazing sale every other day. Like one time, I saw this skirt at the actual store. It was half off of 80 dollars. I didn’t buy it.
Then I reconsidered and went on the app and bought the matching shirt because that was half off. But the skirt was no longer half off. So I waited, and I waited. Then one day miraculously it was 40% off, so I bought it. Then a week later, literally the day I received the package, I went to the store and it was 70% off.
So I bought the skirt for 21 dollars at the store and returned the one I bought online for 47 dollars. The woman at the register who took my return was like, “You didn’t even open this!” And all I could say was, bitch, “I found it here for less than half the price!”
So that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I don’t know about Dragon, I’ll get back to you on that.
nina