[Athen] Mac: Speech-to-text and non-manual mouse control

[Heidi Scher]

Thanks, Wink! Your thoughts and ideas are always appreciated!  He has
already been using Dragon and imported quite a bit of his vocabulary.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of "manual" entries (i.e. not strings) that
have to be made - especially in the coding.

Thanks again!!!!

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director
Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
ARKU 209
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
479.575.3646 tdd
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On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:


> Heidi,

>

> I'm going to reinforce one of my suggestions about importing vocabulary

> into DNS. It doesn't matter which OS you use. If there are repeated code

> strings or commands, specialized vocabulary specific to a topic can be

> imported to DNS and trained. Dragon can mine the hard drive for vocabulary,

> it can extract vocabulary from imported or stored documents, from text

> copied and saved from web pages, and more. If I can teach Dragon to dictate

> chemistry or Braille code, I would claim with some degree of authority that

> it can be trained to recognize LaTeX.

>

> On a side note, as good as DNS is and as far as Apple & Nuance have worked

> on improving this app for the IDevices, the harsh reality is that the math

> & science dictation works better, at a more refined and sophisticated level

> in Windows than it does (yet) in the iOS. There is no version of Math Talk

> & scientific notebook package for the iOS yet.

>

> Is it possible for your student to run Windows on his Mac? My thought is

> that he might be able to set up a partitioned drive, do the dictation in

> the Windows OS with the math talk + scientific notebook + DNS and use his

> iOS for everything else he needs to do.

>

> Just a few extra thoughts for consideration.

>

> Wink

>

> On Wed, May 2, 2018, 7:05 AM Heidi Scher <hascherdss at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> Hi all,

>>

>> Since I'm not at all a Mac user, I'm reaching out to beg for you to share

>> some of your collective knowledge. Have a student whose is losing

>> manual dexterity. He is working on dual doctoral degrees (physics &

>> mathematics). As such, he works a lot with LaTeX and some other coding

>> software. He has been using Dragon, but is finding it cumbersome.

>>

>> He has investigated VoiceCode software which works along with Dragon as

>> well as the SmartNav software and hardware.

>>

>> If anyone has used these, would you share your experience? Are there

>> other suggestions we should investigate?

>>

>> TIA!

>>

>> Heidi

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>> Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC

>> Associate Director

>> Center for Educational Access

>> University of Arkansas

>> ARKU 209

>> Fayetteville, AR 72701

>> 479.575.3104

>> 479.575.7445 fax

>> 479.575.3646 tdd

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