Blogging can often feel like a full-time job and not the great hobby that it should be. A big reason for this is the time we spend in front of our keyboard, writing and rewriting our posts until our hands go numb. Wouldn’t we be happier if we could use our time more productively?

I consider myself to be a good typist, averaging about 50 to 60 words a minute but it just doesn’t compare to the approximately 150 words per minute that I could process with an excellent speech recognition software like Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Preferred. After using DNS for a short while, you soon realize just how inadequate typing can be.  Let’s face it, typing is an unnatural activity.

All the benefits that can be realized using programs like Dragon Naturally Speaking go even further if you consider how much strain typing puts on your body. I often find after a marathon typing session that my  hands, arms and shoulders are tense, and my back aches. Blogging was supposed to be fun, remember?

Speech to Text programs like Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard are the way forward for us bloggers. Think how productive you could be if you could input more meaningful words faster than you currently do now.  You could increase the frequency of your posts, which translates into more traffic to your web site, not to mention more Google love. And because you can produce more content you can make it more meaningful because you’ll have more time to think naturally about the content of your post. This can translate into multiple installments of a theme, which can help turn your first-time web site visitors into repeat visitors.  There’s a great NY Times Review of DNS10 that will give you a excellent perspective on the power of this wonderful tool. As a blogger, i think what makes most  sense is communicating with tecnology in a manner that we as humans have evolved naturally and that is the power of speech.