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From: "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com>
To: Grant Rettke <grant@wisdomandwonder.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disemvowelment Mode?
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 14:17:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tvdx3c19.fsf@paulwrankin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPE0SPOhZn7qxz9ykLko0EOW4btH3UoQ3Bv3FUA=rjv-tLG_mg@mail.gmail.com>


On Tue, May 14 2019, Grant Rettke wrote:

> The issue I'm trying to manage here my mental stamina. I call that my 
> mental budget. For example if I'm going to dictate a 2h lecture then I 
> have a budget of 100 Euros

> My goal is to minimize spending of my mental budget.

I used to work as a journalist, needing to transcribe interviews, and 
now I still need to transcribe TV postproduction scripts. Everyone is 
different, but I found that the mental stamina is taxed not by the speed 
of the recording/typing but by the sense that you don't control the 
flow, i.e. when you're listening and typing simultaneously, you have a 
constant requirement to "keep up" with the recording.

I found it much easier to separate these tasks. So you listen to a 
sentence or two, pause, type what you heard, repeat. This way you retain 
a sense of control of your flow; each task is much easier because you 
focus on listening, then focus on typing accurately.

You'll likely even find you get through a recording much faster because 
you can speed up the playback to ~200% and still have an accurate 
listening comprehension of what is being said.

I don't think spending your time creating what will likely be a complex 
elisp program is going to be in your best interests.

--
https://www.paulwrankin.com



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-14  4:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-13  6:56 Disemvowelment Mode? Grant Rettke
2019-05-13 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-13 19:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-14  0:49     ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  0:48   ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  1:32     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-14  3:54       ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  4:17         ` Paul W. Rankin [this message]
2019-05-15 19:03           ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-14  8:01     ` Joost Kremers
2019-05-14 10:59       ` Eric S Fraga
2019-05-15 19:12       ` Grant Rettke
2019-05-15 21:41         ` Joost Kremers
2019-05-14 11:57   ` Emanuel Berg

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