Dictating Ace and Aro

I produce a lot of words. Between journaling, brainstorming, blogging, and fiction it's generally 2000 to 5000 words a day, unless I'm in a bad mood. And even then, I'll usually hit 500 to 1000. 

But the human body (especially one with a bucket of health issues includuing mysterious recurring voice loss 🥳 ) is not meant to produce that many words using one method only. So, I rotate between typing, dictating, and handwriting. 

I have found that speech-to-text programs are not great with a sonero concepts ... hold on ... a send arrow concepts... sigh ... ACE&ARO concepts. You see what I mean?

The problem is not just that the words are replaced with a similar sounding phrase that you could puzzle out. The problem is that the program will take the confusing sounds and try to blend them into surrounding words or split them into one-syllable words that fit the predicted sentence structure, but no longer resemble the sounds you made. After which the sentence is distorted to the point where it's meaning is difficult (or impossible) to decipher. 

I have been working on workarounds for certain recurring terms. Some terms are close enough and don't garble the surrounding words like "polly affectionate." Some workarounds are just using a longer term like "cisgender" instead of "cis."

My latest scheme is to have a set of soundalike and symbolic filler words that won't throw off the speech-to-text program. 

Can you guess what my filler words stand for?

  • Greens
  • Purples
  • Purple greens
  • Yellow* greens
  • Reddish* purples
  • Denim
  • Apple
  • Material normativity 
  • Spec
  • Alternate 
  • Simplism
  • Not annemarie

Answers: 


*Yellow and red come from the color coded symbols I use in Free Online Aspec Fiction, Poetry, etc. Red was a symbolic choice. Yellow was the most distinct available color. 

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