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<div class="">Having worked with students who have Tourette Syndrome (TS), and being quite familiar with the disorder because it runs in my family, I have found that one invaluable tool for functional speech recognition is a headset microphone with a mute switch.
The vast majority of individuals with TS experience a so-called "premonitory urge" that immediately precedes the tic – a strong sensory phenomena of mounting inner tension which is subsequently relieved (albeit only temporarily) by the tic expression.</div>
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<div class="">Sensing the impending onset of a vocal tic, some students are able to click the mute switch, express the tic, then unmute and continue with dictation. Premonitory urges often occur a couple of seconds to a fraction of a second before a vocal
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<div class="">On SundayJul 31, at 11:17 AM, Romack, Justin <<a href="mailto:justinr@disability.tamu.edu" class="">justinr@disability.tamu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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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 class=""></o:p></div>
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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
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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 class=""></o:p></div>
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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
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Curious if anyone has worked through a similar scenario and had advice or recommendations.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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