Hi,
First of all I want to say I love this program! :D I recently have developed RSI in both arms, and Braina makes life a lot easier to run my computer through voice commands. I have noticed several points however, Where the program could run smoother.
I have created custom commands for the arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate my folders. Up, down, and right, all work well but the command for the left arrow key does not function properly. I have written the command as "press {LEFT}" without the quotes, and it seems to press the left brace key "{" instead. As such, I cannot navigate my folders using the left arrow key custom command, and instead have to resort to using the mouse or the physical key on the keyboard to navigate where I want to go. When I sort files, I can only go in one direction (right) because only the right arrow key command works which makes comparison between files really hard for me as I can not go back to the previous file that I looked at. I'm not sure if this is a programming malfunction in the program But a fix would be greatly appreciated.
The second issue that I noticed is that Braina creates a lot of unnecessary spaces in dictation mode. I have created custom voice aliases for quotation marks and if I want to write some of my novel through dictation without doing a bunch of serious editing later, I have to constantly voice the " backspace " command to clean up the extra spaces. As you can probably see, I am dictating this forum post through Braina and I am not bothering to clean up the spaces as I go. There are a lot of Double spaces being created as I go, appearing after quotation marks, and words if I stall for a few seconds before voicing the next word. a new space also appears after voicing the built in command for " new paragraph. " When I type, I am used to creating perfect grammar and spelling with no mistakes whatsoever, and while I don't expect Braina to perfectly duplicate my own keyboard skills, it would be nice if the dictation mode composition was a little smoother.
also concerning dictation mode, are there any plans to implement a search and replace feature like the Dragon Naturally Speaking software has? It would make editing in dictation mode a lot easier and faster To be able to go back and correct a couple of words without having to delete everything of the last sentence that I spoke and dictate all of it again over and over until I make sure there are no typos in the sentence. :P
I was also wondering if there is any way to specify holding a key for a certain amount of time rather than just one repetition. With this program, it is not easy to switch between all of the open files, tabs, and folders, on my computer. I am familiar with the keyboard command in Windows, "ALT+TAB" and I was wondering if there is any way to duplicate that with Braina. in order for that command to work, the Alt key must be held while the Tab key is pressed however many times. I have explored this program's many capabilities but have not yet figured out a command that allows For the simulation of pressing and holding a key for an amount of time. If that capability is not currently a function of this program, it might be a nice addition to it in the future.
anyway, thanks for taking the time to read all of this. Feedback is appreciated. :)
@Mirage Thanks for the suggestions. We have fixed the double space problem in dictation mode in the latest update i.e. version 1.34 . We are also working on the other bugs.
@Mirage We have fixed the bug with the "press {LEFT}" command in the latest update.