as these kinds of voice recognition packages are designed nreally to
support users with visual impairments as well as certain other
disabilities as well as dyslexia and some cases including motorneuron
disease it is also used by the fully sighted community as an extension
or in some cases a lazy man's tool.
for this system to work effectively for the blind it is obvious of
what needs to be done. the dialogue windows need to interact clearly
with voiceover so that especially in the training sessions, each word
that changes has a script mode change to notify you via voiceover of
word recognised by some form of audio comment. as well as the ability
to read the sentance or word / s individually and indicate status.
this isnt exactly easy.
not that I should mention the windows platform as really that is bad
language and I shall contribute £5 to the swear box...... dragon
naturally speaking, via voice and others required support to read
specific windows, tools and commands so people like T and T
Consultancy. there's another £5 to the swear box created J Say. by
the way just as interest. how J Say came about was due to 3 guys here
in the UK who started the project before Brian Hartgen found out.
brian demanded a take over and then screwed us. and then wrote the
system in the wrong way.
oh well
anyhow I'm sure with some support and clear communication we could get
this application supported with voiceover. I can think of a few users
who would clearly benefit from this application and with the right
support I believe this product would replace all those dismal
attempts at speech packages lol
sorry I'm having a dig at microsoft again. sorry only got £3 to put
in the swear box now lol so I'll stop before I put in I O U's
lew
On 13 Mar 2008, at 19:27, Marshall F. Scott wrote:
William,
No, you cannot train it without sighted help. The training process
presents a story on the screen that you are supposed to read to the
computer. As you read the story, the text changes to green if the
computer recognizes it and to red if the text is not recognized. If
the text is not recognized; you need to reread it to the computer.
Also, there is text that needs to be read to the computer in order
to set microphone level. I don't think either set of text is read
by Voiceover but I'll go back an check.
Marshall
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