JD,
That is very interesting! I personally would find a voice
recognition software useful! Those of you who have heard of or
used J-Say or Dragon Naturally Speaking will know what I'm
talking about. But if we get a voice recognition feature on the
BrailleNote, why not support voice chatting applications such as
Skype and TeamTalk?
If any Humanware staff member reads this, I have one piece of
advice for you to take back to your company: whenever you next
release a Keysoft version, you would do well to consider some
major feature upgrades (you might want to look at the archives of
this list for suggestions of new features and discuss them with
your engineering team, so you know what your customers really
want) and do it fast before HIMS and the BrailleSense line of
notetakers totally blow the BrailleNote out of the water. I love
my BrailleNote Apex, and it is instrumental to my success in
school and in connecting with my friends in this
technologically-driven world in which we live. However, I can
only speak for myself, but I think a lot of users on this list
would agree with me in my opinion that the BrailleNote family of
products has great potential which hasn't been unlocked yet
because Humanware won't allow it to be unlocked. They won't add
new features that we have requested; they don't monitor this list
for suggestions, at least not that we know of, although they say
they do; they still run their BrailleNotes on an operating system
(Windows CE) which is very old and is no longer supported by
Microsoft, as well as Internet Explorer 6 as an underlying
browser for KeyWeb; and most important of my complaints, they
haven't released a Software Development Kit (SDK) so that
programmers outside of the Humanware engineering team can write
programs for the BrailleNote. If an SDK is released, Humanware
won't have to do all the work; I believe that users and
programmers such as Joseph Lee, Alex Hall, Marvin Vasquez, and
Tyler Z, if given the opportunity, could write programs which
would add many more features to the BrailleNote. Please
Humanware; make your product a truly competitive one! Unleash the
full potential of the BrailleNote!!
I'm sorry if any of you think this sounds harsh, but I think it
needs to be said! If we want new features and a better
BrailleNote experience, we need to speak up and keep speaking up
with Humanware.
Chris Nusbaum
Email and Google Talk/Keychat (on the BrailleNote) ID:
[email protected]
Skype: christpher.nusbaum3 or search for Chris Nusbaum
"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight. The
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that
exists. If a blind person has the proper training and
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan
----- Original Message -----
From: JD Townsend <[email protected]
To: Bn Braillenote list <[email protected]
Date sent: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:37:32 -0500
Subject: [Braillenote] Speech Recognision
No, the BrailleNotes do not have a voice recognition application.
I do believe that it would be a most welcome addition. It would
steem that the Apex line might be able to support this.
As I said, interesting.
JD Townsend
Daytona Beach, Florida, Earth
Helping the light dependent to see.
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