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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have not used iListen recently, but I
did use it extensively about two years ago and at that time the recognition was
only slightly behind naturally speaking. The major problem I had at that time
was that iListen could not do hands-free correction, but as I understand it is capable
in the program now. Other than that Teresa is correct a good USB headset
is a necessity although I did not have to have that much of a quiet setting.
In fact at that time Dragon NaturallySpeaking was more background sensitive
than iListen was. One more thing I just remembered about iListen is that
you have to have enough memory to help get you quick and smooth recognition.
We recommend a 1 GB of memory for running NaturallySpeaking and this would be
very similar for iListen.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am getting ready to do some more
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Teresa Wells Haven<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 29, 2006
8:06 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Access Technologists in
Higher Education Network'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Athen] Mac dictation
system</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Hi, Ron. I don't have extensive
experience with iListen, but I was able to help a student a year or so ago get
it working to the point of being happy with it. The major points we
discovered to be critical were, not surprisingly, 1) use of a very good-quality
headset mic, properly positioned, and 2) working in an environment with as
little background noise as possible (much more critical than with Dragon on a
PC). It didn't matter if we tried to train in the same environment (with
background noise) as the student was going to regularly use the program, it
just kept "hearing" the bg as dictation. He had to finally
accept that he would always have to use the program in a quiet setting.
The student also had to learn not to get frustrated with the program and allow
the frustration to change his voice quality. Once we got over those
hurdles, the student was able to use the program successfully for his purpose,
which was to reduce long stretches of keyboarding for letters, papers,
etc. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Hope this helps,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Teresa</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial'>+++++++++++++++++++++</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Teresa Wells Haven, Ph.D.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Assistant Director for Assistive Technology</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Center for Students with Disabilities</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ARKU 104</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> athen-bounces@athenpro.org
[mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>Ron Stewart<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 28, 2006
3:06 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Access Technologists in
Higher Education Network'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Athen] Mac dictation
system</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->Good
afternoon,</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I
have had a request from a student about help with voice recognition on the Mac,
they are currently using iListen. My experiences with this are not
positive, anyone have a good experience and willingness to help a student with
this issue?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ron</span></font>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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