Hi, I think the main issue here is - is there any reason he can't use the keyboard? There is a tutor for the keyboard on the Mac, and I firmly believe he would get a lot more out of the system by using the keyboard rather than a voice. Many of us don't use the dictation system precicely because they are developed for lazy sighties rather than us blinks. There are bespoke systems for blind, but not for the Mac and they are more expensive than standard systems.
Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Burgoyne Sent: 06 March 2006 20:01 To: [email protected] Subject: Ilisten and reading mail voice only method Hi, Im a sighted guy helping my blind uncle to get some use out of his mac, I went to the states and bought a copy of Ilisten for him, he already has viavoice... but weve found it has trouble dictating into anything other than its own text editor, weve just managed to have him read and dictate a mail back all with his voice. you guys seem to be doing ok... from reading these digest mails... maybe weve missed all the really basic problems you guys would have reported here... but we are still pretty much at square one. heres how we did it for your information. ive set up Ilisten to start on login for my uncle.. and start in command mode.. with the mic on.. (Ilisten is pretty much not blind centric... more for lazy sighted people... so unfortunately ive had to help him with his set up.) I've also set the mouse to track voiceovers cursor in the voiceover settings. say; open mail (mail opens) say; tab (voiceover cursor moves from delete to search) say; tab (voiceover cursor moves from search to message boxes) say; tab (voiceover cursor moves from message boxes to message table say; arrow up or arrow down (to select message header) say; enter (to open selected message) the selected message will open in a new window in front say; tab (voiceover cursor moves from delete to reply) say; click mouse (a new reply message window opens) say; switch to dictation mode (the cursor should now be at the top of the message text field) you can then dictate your message say; click mouse (the cursor and mouse are on send, the message will be sent) I really hope this helps some of you. this is the sort of information my uncle would like to be reading here. as we crack on Ill post up more of our findings. of course, Ive had to help my Uncle train his voice, by pausing the training sessions and reading out the storys it asks you to read. I can recommend doing this if you can. If anyone else has any similar knowledge or can recount it in this form we would be very grateful or if anyone has any other methods, please post them if you can in our limited experience Ilisten gives better allround performance than viavoice. best wishes and good luck, Peter p.s. maybe next time this will be posted without any sighted assistance.
