Select and say text editor more powerful than Notepad?
Submitted by Anders on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 13:50.
Does anyone know of any PC text editors that are more powerful than Notepad and that handle Select-and-Say? I'm doing a lot more work with text files these days, and I miss having some of the features of, say, Scite, which I use for Python coding. But unfortunately Scite doesn't do select and say. I assume Visual Studio does, but it costs a bundle. Any other options?
Thanks,
Anders
Other than MS Word
Forgot to mention -- I'm looking for something other than Word, which is great for doc processing but gets irritating when working with a bunch of text files, where you have to keep telling it to not save as a Word doc.
Text processors
I've never found a great solution, but Scite is largely select-and-say compatible for me.
Other options: Win32Pad, Notepad+, and Notepad2, I think.
What version?
What version of scite are you using? I've tried a couple, and while they'll let you do select-and-say on the last few lines you've voiced, select-and-say doesn't work for me on, say, a text file you open.
Anders wrote: What version
What version of scite are you using? I've tried a couple, and while they'll let you do select-and-say on the last few lines you've voiced, select-and-say doesn't work for me on, say, a text file you open.
Anders,
Just for the record, Select-and-Say is either all or none. If an application is Select-and-Say enabled then loading any document into that application will allow you to select text anywhere on the visible portion of said document. If you can't, then the application does not support Select-and-Say.
In short, there is no such thing as being partially Select-and-Say enabled. An application either does or it doesn't support Select-and-Say, and the last utterance or two being selectable does not constitute Select-and-Say. The reason that you can do that is because that text is stored in the speech buffer.
Chuck Runquist
Technical Project Manager
VoiceTeach LLC
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." -- Mark Twain
little chance
Pretty disappointing issue, has been raised several times before:
http://www.speechcomputing.com/node/2008
http://www.speechcomputing.com/node/1375
Quintijn
{Save As Text} command
If you don't find a good text editor, you might consider just writing a simple command called Save as Text and continue to use Microsoft Word. This is how we handled this particular circumstance in KnowBrainer 2008.
Lunis - Nuance NaturallySpeaking Gold Certified BBB Accredited Speech Recognition/Microphone Solutions Provider & Founder of http://www.TheMicrophoneStore.com
On the other hand, is it
On the other hand, is it worth giving up the integrated interpreter, syntax highlighting, code completion, debugging and code exploration of a dedicated IDE such as PyScripter?
http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/wiki/Features
Mark
Anders, I use Notepad++. It
Anders,
I use Notepad++. It has many features I like, some standard, others plugins. Select-and-say functions in this editor.
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Bruce
Notepad++ version?
Bruce, what version of Notepad++ are you using? I found that I had to go back and get version 4.1.2 in order for it to support Select-and-Say in Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
-Russ
Russ, I'm using NP++ version
Russ,
I'm using NP++ version 5.6.8, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional 10.1.
Bruce
Hmm, I have those versions
Hmm, I have those versions (Notepad++ 5.6.8 and NaturallySpeaking Professional 10.1) and select and say does not work for me. I'm on Windows 7, although it doesn't seem like that should matter.
Dana
Dana, My OS is XP. Bruce
Dana,
My OS is XP.
Bruce
MS Word can be a servicable text editor
MS Word can be a servicable text editor once you get all the annoying stuff out of the way. I use it to edit Markdown and simple LaTeX with ease. See the latter part of:
http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/technology/making-wo...
I've been experimenting with
I've been experimenting with jarte and win32pad, and while I have issues with both of them I've been fairly happy. I'm not settled, yet.