thanks Ed; pretty interesting. I should say though, in a separate mailing list, if you own vista, those people who own both dragon pro and vista, prefer the free windows speech recognition utility in vista and windows 7 to dragon. however, it definitely needs macro support, which I have not gotten out there yet, and so dragon sounds like it's the better option, at least for now.
Chip -----Original Message----- From: Ed Marquette [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Dragon and Window-Eyes The real trick, as Jim says, is to set the Dragon Options so they work with screen readers. Dragon itself has some helpful suggestions; however, the J-SAY recommended settings for Dragon work best -- if you can get them. They may be available on the Web. I used to be a J-SAY user, which is how I happened to have the settings. J-SAY will read back each word you say. Native Dragon won't unless you ask Window-Eyes to read it. Actually, I kind of like not hearing every word. I go back, using Kevin's proof-reading script, with homonyms turned on (something not available, to my knowledge, in J-SAY), and when something sounds wrong, highlight the word or phrase, say "Correct That," and you have a dialog box. Either type in the correct word or arrow through a list and hit enter on the correction. Honestly, the only thing I really miss from J-SAY are (1) the way it messed up JAWS and (2) the automatic, continuous reading of speech. You can even do the training, using the mouse reading commands. I use Dragon Pro, and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take much for someone to create a WE-SAY for Dragon -- if there really is a need. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
