[Athen] Options Other Than Dragon with Math Talk?

[Todd Schwanke via athen-list]

Good evening Steve, all:

I came across this as well and am working on trying to get more complete instructions on how to turn it on, as setting the feature gates is not well documented.  The Microsoft Accessibility team shared that this is only available in a specific insider or beta release of Office and that the experimental features need to be toggled on.  Without this I seem to get more the raw/unprocessed text that he mentions in the Implementation section, and so that has mixed results that would require quite a bit of editing.  Also, Murray notes in another posting that he was retiring (congrats Murray!), but I haven’t been able to find if someone else has picked this up and if it is still active.

Todd


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Subject: Re: [Athen] Options Other Than Dragon with Math Talk?

One option you may want to consider is using the Windows math dictation capability with Microsoft Word. It is a relatively new capability which many people do not know about, but I don't know how useful it is in real like. Murray Sargent wrote about it in this blog post https://devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/math-dictation/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/math-dictation/__;!!Mak6IKo!MT5GIeQGj47kMbid57KFOKNRt5DGe6hp6F9ry3hzfcQoRoYOUZI6ntQTwJbC4piUz8dUO0JECngs8qFMtX3EKYMaUva1qfUF$>

In another post by Murray, he states "Math dictation is another math input method for blind and sighted users alike. Imagine, you can say 𝑎² + 𝑏² = 𝑐² faster than you can write or type it! Math dictation can work with all devices, computers, tablets, and phones."
See https://devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/officemath/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/devblogs.microsoft.com/math-in-office/officemath/__;!!Mak6IKo!MT5GIeQGj47kMbid57KFOKNRt5DGe6hp6F9ry3hzfcQoRoYOUZI6ntQTwJbC4piUz8dUO0JECngs8qFMtX3EKYMaUoSDdLYj$>

I would be interested in hearing back from anyone who tries this out with a student to see if it has any merit.

--Steve Noble
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Hi all,



I am working with a quadriplegic student who needs to take a math course next quarter. The student typically uses a stylus held in their mouth on a tablet to type and do some homework.



We are looking into getting the student set up with Dragon and Math Talk to be able to do math verbally but this will take some time as the student does not yet have a computer equipped with this tech.



What other solutions have you used for students with similar barriers? Are there other tech options out there that we aren’t thinking of? Do you provide a scribe for homework for this kind of situation?



Thanks so much in advance!



Warmly,



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