[Athen] Key Strokes info

[Peplow, Michael O.]

If he has good breath support and clear enough speech he would probably
be better off with iListen (speech recognition for the Macintosh).  It's
been around for about 5 years and it is continually be updated.  The
price is better as well at $149-$179.  I have used the product in the
past and for dictation it is very good however for command and control
of the computer environment and for correction of dictation errors it
does not seem as intuitive as Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the PC.
Having said that iListen is far superior (in my opinion) to IBM ViaVoice
which was previously the only player on the Macintosh for speech
recognition.

 

I'm not familiar with Key Strokes so I cannot comment on it, but $300
seems quite steep to me as well.

 

Mike

 

Mike Peplow

Assistive Technology Practitioner

Adaptive Computing Technology Center

University of Missouri-Columbia

N215 Memorial Union

573 882-5657

1-866 396-2380

peplowm at Missouri.edu

http://IATservices.Missouri.edu/adaptive

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Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:19 AM
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Subject: [Athen] Key Strokes info

 

Hello,

I have a 3rd year college student who is confined to a wheelchair and
has trouble typing on his Mac laptop. He has looked into purchasing Key
Strokes which is a fully-functional advanced virtual on-screen keyboard
that allows you to type with a mouse, trackball, head pointer or other
mouse emulator to type characters into any standard Macintosh
application. It also provides advanced multilingual word prediction. 

It costs about $300.00! 

Do any of you have any familiarity with this product and care to share
some comments/advice?

Do any of you use something similar that would be less costly?

Any HELP would be appreciated!

Thanks!




Sue
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