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@mavnn @ryanc They both start with a plosive consonant, and end with the same d consonant. Your accent determines which vowel is used, for me they're quite different, "code" has the "ou" dipthong and "good" has the near-close near-back rounded vowel, but I can see how some accents might have them a lot closer together, like some northern British accents.
@StarkRG I do that too. Especially when I'm trying to type and hold a conversation at the same time.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I have typed 'good' instead of 'code' with reasonable frequency over the course of years and I have no idea why. I don't associate them as concepts, they don't sound the same, they don't repeat letters in the same places. Just my fingers have decided that's how 'code' is typed.
@mavnn @ryanc They both start with a plosive consonant, and end with the same d consonant. Your accent determines which vowel is used, for me they're quite different, "code" has the "ou" dipthong and "good" has the near-close near-back rounded vowel, but I can see how some accents might have them a lot closer together, like some northern British accents.
@[email protected] @[email protected] yeah, for better or worse my accent is pretty Queen's (King's?) English. I have ample experience of being told I sound posh from my time living in the Midlands! So not that similar in the vowel sounds between the two. Brains are weird though - in writing this post out it has occurred to me I've made the typo both touch typing with a Dvorak keyboard and using a swiping keyboard on my phone and now it makes even less sense.
@ryanc Yeah, nah, nothing else was going on. Apparently I internally verbalise the words before writing them. You'd think that would make me a perfect candidate for auto-dictation, but you'd be wrong, I _hate_ speach-to-text ever since I first tried it back in 1996 or whatever and, no, it absolutely has not improved enough to entice me back (I've tried it again a few times, it's better, but not hugely). I think a problem is that they interpret my verbal pauses as the end of a sentence.
@StarkRG I used dragon naturally speaking around that time. It kinda worked.
@ryanc Yeah, kinda. The biggest improvement since then is that you no longer have to train it on your voice. Of course, this does mean that they're likely utterly useless for anyone with an unusual or strong regional accent. The accuracy doesn't seem to have improved much, nor does the ability to understand that verbal pauses mean to stop dictating. It's fine in a pinch or if you have to dictate an enormous amount, but otherwise I'll generally prefer to just type.
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