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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>A friend has asked my expertise on Dragon in the following circumstances. I’ve already responded to that so my question to you all techies out there:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Will either Windows 7 Speech Recognition or the Apple I-Speak be accurate enough for a speaker at a meeting of Deaf & HoH to use as a substitute for CART services? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Any of you who have knowledge of either of these options (aside from the Dragon one), please respond today if possible and offer other suggestions if neither of these are workable.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thanks in advance for you knowledge & expertise.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Wink<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Following is part of the request to me…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[…I am doing] an experiment with Windows 7 Speech Recognition in preparation for a 3 part seminar/class series entitled "<b>Living Confidently with Hearing Loss</b>" starting next week on February 2nd. It will be set up with A/V support whereby we will have a PP projector to put up what is printing out on the laptop or computer screen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We have been providing CART at our monthly meetings and it is just simply expensive and it will cost us over $300 to provide CART services for the 3 meetings. Someone in the committee yesterday shared with me the voice recognition on his I-PAD and it worked pretty well, even with MY voice!!! The captioning for the meetings, including the seminar series, do not have to be as accurate as for college students with their courses but just to help the participants be able to follow along with the discussion and presentations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>My question and request for advice from you is this: <b>Will this work for our meetings and seminar series if we were to get Dragon NS with its headset or will Windows 7 suffice?</b> Is this even a feasible idea and one that will work for meeting type uses from DNS or Windows 7 Speech Recognition. If the DNS or Windows 7 Speech Recognition will work, it will save me over $800 a year from not having to hire CART services for our monthly meetings, let alone the special seminars that I will schedule for this community just this year alone. If so, it will be worth getting a new laptop (I have a basic one that is 6 years old) with Windows 7 to use for my new career. All this came about because I was having trouble arranging for a CART service provider for the seminar series and also when the lead person for CART in Flag said that we can get one but with $200 per session which I think is simply ridiculously expensive. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I will go out and buy whatever you recommend if this is a workable idea and if so, <b>I need to do it this week.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Times","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>