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

[Heidi Scher]

Many thanks! Yes, I know DNS can control the mouse. But as quickly as this
young man moves around and as many things as he has open at any given time,
he's thinking that it will be much more effective to use some type of IR.

This young man is literally a genius. He entered the University after just
turning 15. Graduated with dual bachelor's at 18, got his master's at 19,
and is now working on dual Ph.D.s in physics and mathematics.  (Yes, he
almost has intelligence leaking out his ears! LOL! )

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
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Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
ARKU 209
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
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On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com> wrote:


> Heidi et al ATHENites,

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> He can also record macros for frequently repeated sections of LaTeX code.

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> To respond to your second question (which none of us did previously!): DNS

> in Windows has the ability to voice-control the mouse.

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> Wink

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

> Behalf Of *Heidi Scher

> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 02, 2018 11:48 AM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Mac: Speech-to-text and non-manual mouse control

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> 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.

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> Thanks again!!!!

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> 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:

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> Heidi,

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> Just a few extra thoughts for consideration.

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> Wink

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

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> Hi all,

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> 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.

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

> well as the SmartNav software and hardware.

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

> suggestions we should investigate?

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> TIA!

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> Heidi

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> Associate Director

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> 479.575.3104

> 479.575.7445 fax

> 479.575.3646 tdd

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