[Athen] Programs for people with low-vision

[LaBella, Pam]

Read and Write Gold does have speech recognition but it is not as good as Dragon Naturally Speaking.  Dragon makes less errors.
What do you mean by lengthy process when using Dragon to read back the text typed?
You could try having the student use Dragon to dictate in Microsoft Word then use Word's Speak it tool to read the text.
Pam
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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 2:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Programs for people with low-vision

Read&Write has speech recognition built-in.  It uses the Microsoft speech engine.  It also has the ability to read back the information with TTS, which may work better than having DNS read it back.



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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Liza Eldred
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 1:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Programs for people with low-vision

He is using DNS because he cannot type out his essays.
He can verbally express himself better through dictation and having DNS transcribe it for him.
I was just wondering if there was any other technology out there that does a similar job as DNS.

Thanks,
Liza



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I'm curious why DNS is regarded as a solution for someone with low vision. Why isn't the person using screen magnification such as ZoomText? That also is an pretty good reading tool when it works.

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Liza Eldred <CherniwchanL at macewan.ca<mailto:CherniwchanL at macewan.ca>> wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of any alternative programs to Dragon Naturally Speaking for someone who has low-vision? Plus the student that I'm working with cannot read so having Dragon read the text back to him for proofreading is a very lengthy process.
Thanks,
Liza

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