<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Word Q plus Speak Q is a really good tool that allows a person to use dictation and filter it with a word prediction utility in windows.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.pcworld.com/article/495057/wordq_plus_speakq.html">https://www.pcworld.com/article/495057/wordq_plus_speakq.html</a> <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone. please excuse errors from using Apple's dictation feature.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 31, 2022, at 2:17 PM, Romack, Justin <justinr@disability.tamu.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m working with a student who has vocal ticks and wants to use speech-to-text dictation for longer writing assignments and essays (including use in our Testing Center).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">While I did not personally observe these ticks, they note this happens often (especially later in the day). The student has been able to use speech-to-text on their Android tablet by making use of a filter words feature built into the tablet’s
dictation function (they’ll just filter out words/phrases as they become ticks). I’m not opposed to exploring this option in our Testing Center if necessary, but also wanted to see if we could provide a solution on our machines as well. I did look through
some documentation on Chrome OS to see if I could duplicate their approach on a Chromebook, but didn’t have much luck.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve not looked super closely at the Windows/Mac built-in dictation tools, but couldn’t find anything in Dragon that would indicate a similar feature.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The student does note that their ticks are usually at a much higher frequency range than their speaking voice and that another solution they’ve found to work is the noise suppression in Discord. This student seemed very well-versed on the
tools that had been helpful to them to this point… it’s just putting them all together in the academic space.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Curious if anyone has worked through a similar scenario and had advice or recommendations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Grateful for this community!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Be well,<o:p></o:p></p>
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