“Captain’s log…”
One of the problems I’ve noticed in my trips is that it is something of a hassle to record your adventures after the fact. On the Newfoundland bike trip, for example, every few days I would sit in camp updating my hand-written journal. When I got back home, it took me several weeks to slowly transcribe those notes into my computer, and several weeks more to actually pull a few entries and blog about them. In fact, it was so much hassle that my life had already moved on and I did not get to blog as much as I wanted.
To fix this problem, I’ve been lusting after a voice-recording solution so I can record my adventures on the fly. Finally, last night I bought a Belkin TuneTalk for iPod. I just tested it out, and it seems to work fine! I’ll be using it on the cross-country move trip.
My dream is to get voice recognition on my computer so that I can automatically transcribe my audio logs into text files. Unfortunately, voice recognition on Linux appears to be pretty much dead at this moment (email me if you know of a one that is currently available). I may have to take a risk and buy Naturally Speaking and hope it works on Wine….
December 13th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
And transcribing recordings is easier than transcribing handwritten notes because … … …
December 14th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
… because the audio file is on the computer, hence easily accessible.
Actually, the big advantage is that recording by voice is faster than hand-writing. I’m still transcribing for now, but once I get the voice recognition solution working, that will be automated.