[Athen] Speech-to-text solutions for student with Tourette Syndrome and Dysgraphia

[Jeffrey Dell]

Word Q plus Speak Q is a really good tool that allows a person to use dictation and filter it with a word prediction utility in windows.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/495057/wordq_plus_speakq.html 

Sent from my iPhone.  please excuse errors from using Apple's dictation feature.


> On Jul 31, 2022, at 2:17 PM, Romack, Justin <justinr at disability.tamu.edu> wrote:

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> Howdy y’all!

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> I’m working with a student who has vocal ticks and wants to use speech-to-text dictation for longer writing assignments and essays (including use in our Testing Center).

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> While I did not personally observe these ticks, they note this happens often (especially later in the day). The student has been able to use speech-to-text on their Android tablet by making use of a filter words feature built into the tablet’s dictation function (they’ll just filter out words/phrases as they become ticks). I’m not opposed to exploring this option in our Testing Center if necessary, but also wanted to see if we could provide a solution on our machines as well. I did look through some documentation on Chrome OS to see if I could duplicate their approach on a Chromebook, but didn’t have much luck.

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> I’ve not looked super closely at the Windows/Mac built-in dictation tools, but couldn’t find anything in Dragon that would indicate a similar feature.

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> The student does note that their ticks are usually at a much higher frequency range than their speaking voice and that another solution they’ve found to work is the noise suppression in Discord. This student seemed very well-versed on the tools that had been helpful to them to this point… it’s just putting them all together in the academic space.

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> Curious if anyone has worked through a similar scenario and had advice or recommendations.

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> Grateful for this community!

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> Be well,

> J

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