I have tried to use Via Voice, an IBM voice recognition SW. It works
great for sighted but the training requires a blind person to speak a
long set of text as it is scrolled out in front of one's eyes which of
course we cant see. Another person's voice does not work as it
recognizes the users voice only. I have not yet worked out how to be
told what to say, and say it with the computer only hearing what I say,
not the sighted guide. Some one earlier had a set up where the blind
person listened to a sighted person thru a mic and head phone hookup and
the blind person then repeated the training words for Via Voice.
Anyway, unless trained with the users voice it cant help you anyway.
Vickie Weir
Cheryl Homiak wrote:
If I remember correctly about most voice recognition packages, you
have to train them which means you have to be able to tell as you
talk whether what you say is actually what is being written. I think
that a sighted person can monitor this while doing the training; so I
imagine that having iListen work with voiceover so a blind person can
get the same feedback might be desirable. Otherwise, you'd have to
try to speak something and only know what was happening upon
completing something and going over it.
