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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You will need to purchase a license of Dragon in Arabic (Saudi Arabia). It will not work on the English version without a ton of extra work.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">It may be best to reach out to the Arabic department to see if they have readers and scribes who would be willing to work.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Maria Ortado<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Learning Arabic with AT?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This may not be necessary, but I would also suggest that the student create a separate account that they only use for Arabic. That way they will not teach Dragon to recognize words they don't use in English. They could "save as" their current
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC"">Maria Ortado</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Villanueva, K-leigh <<a href="mailto:kvillanueva@lee.edu" target="_blank">kvillanueva@lee.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kurzweil has an Arabic option...and there is a keyboard conversion tool/ and or an arabic keyboard. Is this what is needed? K-leigh<o:p></o:p></p>
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From: "DiMola, Amy E" <<a href="mailto:dimolaa@uww.edu" target="_blank">dimolaa@uww.edu</a>>
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Date: 4/6/17 1:17 PM (GMT-06:00) <br>
To: <a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>
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Subject: [Athen] Learning Arabic with AT? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I have a college student who uses speech-to-text (Dragon NaturallySpeaking) and text-to-speech (Kurzweil 3000) who
plans on taking Arabic in the fall. The student is physically unable to write, and relies on a combination of speech-to-text and aides to complete assignments.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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