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

[Joshua Hori]

If he’s needing quite a few customizations, then he may want to consider Dragonfly! It’s freely available on GitHub but is meant for programming. Here’s a video of the developer using Dragonfly, fast forward to 9 minutes to hear it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI

Or VoiceAttack: https://voiceattack.com/ (gaming and app macros, may work well with MathType) may be another option to consider.


~Joshua

From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wink Harner
Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Mac: Speech-to-text and non-manual mouse control

Heidi et al ATHENites,

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

To respond to your second question (which none of us did previously!): DNS in Windows has the ability to voice-control the mouse.

Wink



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

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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On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 12:29 PM, Wink Harner <foreigntype at gmail.com<mailto: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<mailto: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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Center for Educational Access
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Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
479.575.3646 tdd
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