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For those with babies on the way like the author and reading material to get through for business, I found that a text to speech app like @voice with a good sou
by drited 10y ago
For those with babies on the way like the author and reading material to get through for business, I found that a text to speech app like @voice with a good sounding voice like the AT&T voices, plus a Bluetooth earpiece helps a lot. Baby needs a bottle? Earpiece on, start listening. Baby needs a walk in the buggy? Same. Baby wakes in the middle of the night and needs to be in your arms for a while to get back to sleep? Same. Helped me to get through a couple of books a month I couldn't have otherwise read. Obviously has to be relatively easy to understand material.
- ihaveajob 10y agoIn a similar vein, I have become quite the expert at using conversational style apps (including the voice to text transcription on iOS), since I can't type while doing baby chores, but I can surely dictate.
- ladytron 10y agoFrank Gilbreth set up a dictation machine for Lillian Gilbreth so she could dictate management books while she was breastfeeding... I think in the 1930's :-).
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoWhen my oldest was a baby I used to read the C++ annotated reference to him to send him to sleep.
- frandroid 10y agoDid your oldest end up becoming a C++ dev? 8)
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoNo, bit he did study CS at Cambridge.
- insulanus 10y agoAck! There are university grads older than C++ now! Aaaack!