[Athen] Key Strokes info

[Glenda Watson Hyatt]

Another option is the onscreen keyboard My-T-Soft perhaps with Letmetype for
word prediction - just not sure if those two play nicely together or if they
are Mac compatible.  I do know they are inexpensive or free, which is a good
thing!

Good luck.

Cheers,
Glenda

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  From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]On
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  Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:44 AM
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  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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  From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
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  Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:19 AM
  To: GBAT at yahoogroups.com; athen at athenpro.org; atacpgen04-c at csun.edu
  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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