[Athen] Windows speech recognition questions

[Lucy GRECO]

watch the dictation  bridge web site the new update for nvda will be out
shortly if not  already out i saw a  message just two days ago saying the
new version for nvda 2019 sr3 would be posted shortly thanks lucy
Lucia Greco
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University of California, Berkeley
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:08 AM Deborah Armstrong <
armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu> wrote:


> I am a fairly experienced user of Windows speech recognition. I’m having

> hand surgery in March and will need to depend on it for a few weeks.

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> I had used it extensively in Windows 7 and XP but only briefly in Windows

> 10 to test it and to create a profile.

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> I am finding it still works great for me, and I created a new profile this

> morning with an improved microphone I received recently for our VOIP phone

> system in my job.

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> But I’m having two issues. First, the WSR macros (Windows Speech

> recognition macros) software provided by Microsoft doesn’t appear to run in

> Windows 10 1903 or 1909. But Microsoft’s online help assumes it does. Also

> their disability answer desk just said if it was working before it should

> still be working; though I think I was chatting with a flunkie who wasn’t

> even sure what I was talking about.

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> The macro creater installs fine, but refuses to launch or create a folder

> in my Documents directory. I am really going to need those macros to get

> multiple keys pressed, as speech recognition simply can press single keys

> like delete or page up.

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> I could of course use Dragon, but Dictation Bridge, which I would have

> used with NVDA is no longer compatible with NVDA and doesn’t appear to be

> getting updated. Dictation bridge never worked with JAWS for me anyway. I

> can use Dragon without it but it’s a pain; WSR is much more screen reader

> friendly.

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> I can use J-say, I even know how, but  I don’t know where our license or

> software CD went as we purchased it a dozen years ago and it needs updating

> for the current Dragon and Win 10.

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> Ideally, I just want the WSR macros to launch so I can create ones for the

> commands I use most.

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> Any thoughts?

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> --Debee

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