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Rest is ultimately the best way to prevent hand injuries and since I spend most of my time in Chrome, this extension lets me do it hands free.
FYI, I thought my programming career was over due to RSI. Now, I only type while wearing long-sleeves. And of course, I still have to take regular breaks. I no longer suffer RSI symptoms. I'm guessing because it increases blood flow to the area and perhaps the warmth helps keep ligaments and muscles flexible and loose. Simple solution, but took a while to figure out. Hopefully this helps someone reading this.
I use a 250 watt heat lamp suspended about 3 feet above by keyboard. It warms my hands, the kbd, and the desk surface. Doing so for years, way more comfy.
FYI, I thought my programming career was over due to RSI. Now, I only type while wearing long-sleeves. And of course, I still have to take regular breaks. I no longer suffer RSI symptoms. I'm guessing because it increases blood flow to the area and perhaps the warmth helps keep ligaments and muscles flexible and loose. Simple solution, but took a while to figure out. Hopefully this helps someone reading this.
Same, I had debilitating RSI for years, to the point where I was using voice recognition and a foot mouse, but all symptoms went away once I started wearing hoodies to work. As soon as I use a computer with bare arms though it all comes right back.
Only a few minutes with bare arms and I get this snapping sensation in my forearms as I type. And if I push through, pain.
Doctor's wanted to do surgery. But I didn't have the problem prior to an injury that required me to use crutches, so I was hesitant to resort to surgery.
Keeping my arms covered has been a lower risk solution that's been working fine now for 6 years.
This post starts out talking about expecting to spend around $1,000. There are at least two cross-platform projects where the biggest expense is a microphone instead of software. 1. My project, Talon. Windows/Linux/Mac support, and a first party local speech recognition engine that is pretty good and getting better. It’s free, but the engine is in a private beta (which is $15/mo to support development, optional if th…
(For example, I suspect the microphone their school supplies them with may be no good)
I had several onsets of RSI a few years back, and had to resort to voice coding as a last resort, after stretches, pauses and ergonomic everything did not do the job. It was pretty awful. But then, after having seen doctors and neurologists, and finally a physical therapist, I came across my salvation: - Exercising my hands. I very rarely see this mentioned for some reason. I exercised regularly, but only the bigger…
Could you please elaborate on the exercises you're finding helpful ? I have a mild RSI myself (outer part of the forearm, near the elbow) and have been trying some eccentric exercises for a few months now but I'm not seeing a big improvement.
This post starts out talking about expecting to spend around $1,000. There are at least two cross-platform projects where the biggest expense is a microphone instead of software. 1. My project, Talon. Windows/Linux/Mac support, and a first party local speech recognition engine that is pretty good and getting better. It’s free, but the engine is in a private beta (which is $15/mo to support development, optional if th…
I created Kaldi Active Grammar because I didn't trust relying on closed source software for something so crucial to my productivity, where a decision by an outside party determines whether I can function. As a bonus, open source means I can make it work better to fit my needs than closed source ever could.
Furthermore, the original article mentions Caster (which is built on Dragonfly), but doesn't mention that KaldiAG works with it, and that work is underway to expand Caster's platform support.
FYI, I thought my programming career was over due to RSI. Now, I only type while wearing long-sleeves. And of course, I still have to take regular breaks. I no longer suffer RSI symptoms. I'm guessing because it increases blood flow to the area and perhaps the warmth helps keep ligaments and muscles flexible and loose. Simple solution, but took a while to figure out. Hopefully this helps someone reading this.
Here's my submission to the "thing that solved my RSI but which is purely subjective and may or may not work for you" category: I used to try to type with my arms/elbows floating -- not resting on anything. This seems to be fairly standard advice. For example, you can see it here: http://ergonomictrends.com/proper-ergonomic-typing-posture-a... I've had various doctors recommend the same thing. But when I try that, th…
This post starts out talking about expecting to spend around $1,000. There are at least two cross-platform projects where the biggest expense is a microphone instead of software. 1. My project, Talon. Windows/Linux/Mac support, and a first party local speech recognition engine that is pretty good and getting better. It’s free, but the engine is in a private beta (which is $15/mo to support development, optional if th…
I have a non-technical friend who says Dragon is too unreliable to be usable. My intuition was that the problem is probably somewhere else and that if Dragon doesn't work nothing will. I'm under the assumption that competing voice recognition software competes on price. Is that assumption wrong? (For example, I suspect the microphone their school supplies them with may be no good)
Also, Dragon has many commands that cannot be disabled, and if your accuracy is already low, more commands available means more possible things to get wrong. Something like Dragonfly with KaldiAG could allow you to reduce the command set, and improve the practical accuracy.
So, more personalized training/software may work better.
Greetings Everyone, I help maintain the Caster project. The key difference from other solutions out there as we seek to support a completely open source voice coding stack. Open source is only way to go long term if you're going to being using a tool for most of your life. Fortunately for some it acts as a bridge until their RSI symptoms becomes manageable or goes into remission. We are working towards cross-platform…
For what it's worth, my voice is quite abnormal, so most untrained speech recognition is terrible for me, and even performing the normal "training" for Dragon still resulted in very poor accuracy. However, apparently their training is quite limited, because once I developed Kaldi Active Grammar, and did my own direct training, the results were fantastic in comparison, with orders of magnitude better accuracy.
Open source is what allows this.
This post starts out talking about expecting to spend around $1,000. There are at least two cross-platform projects where the biggest expense is a microphone instead of software. 1. My project, Talon. Windows/Linux/Mac support, and a first party local speech recognition engine that is pretty good and getting better. It’s free, but the engine is in a private beta (which is $15/mo to support development, optional if th…
This comment fails to mention Dragonfly with my Kaldi Active Grammar backend [1], which is cross platform (Windows/Linux now and Mac functional and to be released soon), completely free with no private beta features (although I do accept donations), and 100% open source (unlike Talon). The speech recognition is local, with extremely low latency. See the video demonstration [2] on the project page. I think the underly…
I found your measurement here [1] which is against an unknown wav2letter acoustic+language model pair, as the web demo is at any given point in time running an arbitrary model based on having users test in-progress models, and it has never been running the model I am currently shipping with Talon.
(As a small example, the unfinished wav2letter experiment I am training right now has a 3.17% WER on speech commands, and 6.86% WER on librispeech clean, both numbers without using a language model)
[1] https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar/blob/master/d...