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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If he has good breath support and clear
enough speech he would probably be better off with iListen (speech recognition
for the Macintosh). It's been around for about 5 years and it is
continually be updated. The price is better as well at $149-$179. I
have used the product in the past and for dictation it is very good however for
command and control of the computer environment and for correction of dictation
errors it does not seem as intuitive as Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the PC.
Having said that iListen is far superior (in my opinion) to IBM ViaVoice which
was previously the only player on the Macintosh for speech recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I'm not familiar with Key Strokes so I
cannot comment on it, but $300 seems quite steep to me as well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Sue Morgado<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:19
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> GBAT@yahoogroups.com;
athen@athenpro.org; atacpgen04-c@csun.edu<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Athen] Key Strokes info</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hello,<br>
<br>
I have a 3rd year college student who is confined to a wheelchair and has
trouble typing on his Mac laptop. He has looked into purchasing Key Strokes
which is a fully-functional advanced virtual on-screen keyboard that allows you
to type with a mouse, trackball, head pointer or other mouse emulator to type
characters into any standard Macintosh application. It also provides advanced
multilingual word prediction. <br>
<br>
It costs about $300.00! <br>
<br>
Do any of you have any familiarity with this product and care to share some
comments/advice?<br>
<br>
Do any of you use something similar that would be less costly?<br>
<br>
Any HELP would be appreciated!<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p></x-sigsep><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sue<br>
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Susan A. Morgado<br>
Director of Technology Support<br>
Assistive Technology Specialist<br>
Library and Information Services<br>
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<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">02766</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
508.286.3754<br>
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