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> me typing this right now is basically just commanding my fingers to punch out the words the voice in my head is telling me to punch out. That sounds really a
by dijit 2y ago
> me typing this right now is basically just commanding my fingers to punch out the words the voice in my head is telling me to punch out.
That sounds really annoying, but I would assume that you could transcribe what someone is saying out loud while continuing to listen? I would find that extremely difficult.
In my mind when I’m typing out letters its a little similar to those typing games[0] where you see a word and punch it down letter by letter. In my head it goes bolder when I wrote a letter of a word I’m putting down. This makes it very easy to transcribe documents - an unnecessary skill in the age of OCR. I doubt there is any other advantage of this quirk, other than it seems that spelling seems to be easier for me than others on the internet.
If I had to listen to someone I would have to pause while my brain processed it into text and only then could I continue.
[0]: https://zty.pe/ https://zty.pe/
- neom 2y agoI never thought about that but yeah, I can transcribe what someone is saying and listening at the same time I think I could do a good job of being a "dumb pipe" too just taking what they say and very quickly saying it out loud. I also sometimes watch the news while listening to music my wife finds that totally bonkers. Your thing seems cool but yeah, I can't imagine it and trying to imagine it is, annoying. You would have made a good lawyer, if you're not one already. The lawyers I know who are world class can both do what you can do + are also just intelligent/smart/fast. Oh I guess maybe you're a SWE? I guess a "10x" SWE is probably doing this too, it's why I never made it in comp sci.