[Athen] NaturallySpeaking Medical Edition

[Wink Harner]

Of course!  Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Wink

On May 16, 2017 11:45 AM, "Schwarte, David M." <schwarte at purdue.edu> wrote:


> Hello Wink,

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> That is the type of information I was hoping to hear.  I will try to

> convince the student that this is a great “opportunity” to practice her

> vocabulary, by adding it to NaturallySpeaking. I recently worked with a

> student on adding single words, but it has been a while since I have added

> vocabulary from a document.  I am glad to know it is still doable.  I was

> just guessing there was a lot of vocabulary overlap between human medicine

> and veterinary medicine anyway.

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> Thanks very much for your help Wink.

>

> David Schwarte

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> *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On

> Behalf Of *Wink Harner

> *Sent:* Monday, May 15, 2017 5:38 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] NaturallySpeaking Medical Edition

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>

> Hi David,

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> There's no reason to spend the extra money on the medical version of

> Dragon Naturally Speaking. Either professional individual version or the

> premium version provide enough support for what your student needs to be

> able to do.

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> In order to create customized vocabulary, you can create a vocabulary list

> using Microsoft Word and import to DNS, scan a document with medical

> vocabulary pertaining to the veterinary science program & import it into

> DNS, or add vocabulary as it comes along. The student would then train the

> pronunciation of the vocabulary. it's a little time-consuming in the

> beginning, but once you get the hang of it, it's not hard at all to do

> this.

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> Contact me off list if you need more information on how to do this.

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>

> Wink Harner

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> Foreigntype at gmail.com

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> On May 15, 2017 11:48 AM, "Schwarte, David M." <schwarte at purdue.edu>

> wrote:

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> Hello Everyone,

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>

> I am working with a veterinary medicine student who is interested in using

> voice recognition.  I came up with the bright idea that NaturallySpeaking

> Medical Edition might be a good option.  I have now looked at the price and

> I have a couple of questions for those who know more about

> NaturallySpeaking, especially the Medical Edition.  Is there more to the

> Medical Edition than just additional medical terminology?  Are there

> alternatives to NaturallySpeaking in terms of voice recognition for medical

> professionals?  I would also be curious if there was a repository of

> medical terms that could be added to a less specialized version of

> NaturallySpeaking.  I was also thinking a list of medical terms would be

> helpful for real-time captioning, so there would be more uses for a list of

> medical terms than just for voice recognition.

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> Thanks in advance for your assistance.

>

> David Schwarte

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> David Schwarte

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