[Athen] Command-&-Control with (Non-Dragon) SpeechRec. Software?

Pratik Patel pratikp1 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 14:37:53 PST 2006


Patrick,

I may be wrong. But, as I understand it, AISquared built-in dragon
compatibility some time ago (version 7, perhaps). Have you spoeken to
AISquared about this?

Pratik


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Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 5:23 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Command-&-Control with (Non-Dragon) SpeechRec.
Software?



>Hello again,



About two months ago I asked here about possible ways of using speech
recognition utilities to control various functions in Zoomtext. I
just wanted to take a moment to report our (non)findings.

The program that seemed most promising was VR Commander. However,
here is our customer's final report:

<<
I spent several hours over the last couple of weeks installing, learning,
and evaluating VR commander.
Here's the conclusion:
It is very easy to use, economical, etc.
Problems: It lacks a speaker-specific training mode. You type in what you
want it to hear, and it figures out how it is supposed to sound.
This is part of the reason why it is inadequate at consistently recognizing
the correct command. It either fails to respond, or responds to the wrong
command. It also tends to respond to background noise, for instance, the
sound of placing a book on a table or moving a chair. Interestingly, it
does not seem to detect the Zoomtext synthetic speech sounds. It's noise
rejection and gain settings do not to remedy these problems.
It also seems to have significant stability problems and/or compatibility
problems with ZoomText. A couple of times, Zoomtext stopped speaking until
I closed both probrams. Other times the VR commander just stopped working.

So, I remain interested in finding a more suitable solution.
>>


So we are basically back to square 1. The resources at
codebyvoice.com also look very interesting, but so far no one has had
the time to dig in & tackle the scripting possibilities.

Currently I'm thinking perhaps a simpler Windows macro program would
cut down on the number of repetitive commands for the user, while
avoiding the problem of commands being triggered by a book-thud.

I'll report in if any new news comes our way.

Belated thanks for the helpful comments from the group.

Patrick
--
Patrick J. Burke

Coordinator
UCLA Disabilities &
Computing Program

Phone: 310 206-6004
E-mail: burke at ucla.edu


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