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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve written previously to talk about the decision by Nuance to stop supporting Dragon Professional Individual for Mac (formerly Dragon for Mac), which has left a huge gap in the voice recognition arena, especially
for users who need to control the mouse with their voice and use custom vocabularies. There is a very in-depth article on the topic at
<a href="https://tidbits.com/2019/01/21/nuance-has-abandoned-mac-speech-recognition-will-apple-fill-the-void/">
https://tidbits.com/2019/01/21/nuance-has-abandoned-mac-speech-recognition-will-apple-fill-the-void/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As I was reading through the comments, someone mentioned that Apple is planning to add some of this functionality to their built-in dictation with the next version of the Mac OS. “At the recent announcement
of the next Mac OS a new feature called Voice control was announced. It sounds like this feature will allow voice-based control of the mouse, via commands and a grid.” That comment was from June 8<sup>th</sup> of this year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So, that’s good news. I hope it happens soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Have a good weekend,<br>
Kathy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kathy Cahill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Associate Dean, Accessibility and Usability<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">MIT Division of Student Life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">77 Mass. Ave. 7-143<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cambridge MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:kcahill@mit.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">kcahill@mit.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(617) 253-5111<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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