[Athen] Dictation/Transcription question

[Ed. Rosenthal]

Wink- I don't believe either Win 7 SR or I-Speak will deliver the level of
accuracy required for this purpose; even with a 'respeaker' I'm not
optimistic at this juncture...hopefully future improvements are on the
way.-ed.

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Edward S. Rosenthal

President and CEO

Next Generation Technologies, Inc. (NGT, Inc.)

20006 Cedar Valley Rd. #101

Lynnwood, Wa.  98036

425-744-1100  ext.15

EM: edward at ngtvoice.com

URL: http://www.ngtvoice.com

Skype: ed.rosenthal7

 



 

 

 

 

From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wink
Harner
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:11 AM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
Subject: [Athen] Dictation/Transcription question

 

 

Hi All,

 

A friend has asked my expertise on Dragon in the following circumstances.
I've already responded to that so my question to you all techies out there:

 

Will either Windows 7 Speech Recognition or the Apple I-Speak be accurate
enough for a speaker at a meeting of Deaf & HoH to use as a substitute for
CART services? 

 

Any of you who have knowledge of either of these options (aside from the
Dragon one), please respond today if possible and offer other suggestions if
neither of these are workable.

 

Thanks in advance for you knowledge & expertise.

 

Wink

 

Following is part of the request to me.

 

[.I am doing] an experiment with Windows 7 Speech Recognition in preparation
for a 3 part seminar/class series entitled "Living Confidently with Hearing
Loss" starting next week on February 2nd.  It will be set up with A/V
support whereby we will have a PP projector to put up what is printing out
on the laptop or computer screen.  

 

We have been providing CART at our monthly meetings and it is just simply
expensive and it will cost us over $300 to provide CART services for the 3
meetings.  Someone in the committee yesterday shared with me the voice
recognition on his I-PAD and it worked pretty well, even with MY voice!!!
The captioning for the meetings, including the seminar series, do not have
to be as accurate as for college students with their courses but just to
help the participants be able to follow along with the discussion and
presentations.  

 

My question and request for advice from you is this:  Will this work for our
meetings and seminar series if we were to get Dragon NS with its headset or
will Windows 7 suffice?  Is this even a feasible idea and one that will work
for meeting type uses from DNS or Windows 7 Speech Recognition.  If the DNS
or Windows 7 Speech Recognition will work, it will save me over $800 a year
from not having to hire CART services for our monthly meetings, let alone
the special seminars that I will schedule for this community just this year
alone.  If so, it will be worth getting a new laptop (I have a basic one
that is 6 years old) with Windows 7 to use for my new career.  All this came
about because I was having trouble arranging for a CART service provider for
the seminar series and also when the lead person for CART in Flag said that
we can get one but with $200 per session which I think is simply
ridiculously expensive.  

 

I will go out and buy whatever you recommend if this is a workable idea and
if so, I need to do it this week.  

 

 

 

 

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