[Athen] Mac dictation system

[Peplow, Michael O.]

I have not used iListen recently, but I did use it extensively about two
years ago and at that time the recognition was only slightly behind
naturally speaking.  The major problem I had at that time was that
iListen could not do hands-free correction, but as I understand it is
capable in the program now.  Other than that Teresa is correct a good
USB headset is a necessity although I did not have to have that much of
a quiet setting.  In fact at that time Dragon NaturallySpeaking was more
background sensitive than iListen was.  One more thing I just remembered
about iListen is that you have to have enough memory to help get you
quick and smooth recognition.  We recommend a 1 GB of memory for running
NaturallySpeaking and this would be very similar for iListen.

 

I am getting ready to do some more research with iListen and I may have
more information in the future.

 

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
Behalf Of Teresa Wells Haven
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:06 AM
To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'
Subject: Re: [Athen] Mac dictation system

 

Hi, Ron.  I don't have extensive experience with iListen, but I was able
to help a student a year or so ago get it working to the point of being
happy with it.  The major points we discovered to be critical were, not
surprisingly, 1) use of a very good-quality headset mic, properly
positioned, and 2) working in an environment with as little background
noise as possible (much more critical than with Dragon on a PC).  It
didn't matter if we tried to train in the same environment (with
background noise) as the student was going to regularly use the program,
it just kept "hearing" the bg as dictation.  He had to finally accept
that he would always have to use the program in a quiet setting.  The
student also had to learn not to get frustrated with the program and
allow the frustration to change his voice quality.  Once we got over
those hurdles, the student was able to use the program successfully for
his purpose, which was to reduce long stretches of keyboarding for
letters, papers, etc.  

 

Hope this helps,

Teresa

 

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Teresa Wells Haven, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for Assistive Technology

Center for Students with Disabilities

ARKU 104

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, AR 72701

479-575-3104 (voice)

479-575-7445 (fax)

479-575-3646 (tdd)

ada at uark.edu

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	-----Original Message-----
	From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org
[mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart
	Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:06 PM
	To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'
	Subject: [Athen] Mac dictation system

	Good afternoon, 

	I have had a request from a student about help with voice
recognition on the Mac, they are currently using iListen.  My
experiences with this are not positive, anyone have a good experience
and willingness to help a student with this issue?

	Ron 

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