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

[Heidi Scher]

Great ideas, Joshua!  Many thanks!!

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
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University of Arkansas
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On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 6:23 PM, Joshua Hori <jhori at ucdavis.edu> wrote:


> 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

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> Or VoiceAttack: https://voiceattack.com/ (gaming and app macros, may work

> well with MathType) may be another option to consider.

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> ~Joshua

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> *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

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> 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

> <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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