Thanks Tim,
Being new to the program, I hadn't seen that possibility. Actually, I
have already created a bunch of Dragon Dictate scripts that generate the
LaTeX for another program (Tex Studio), so I think I will be able to
fairly easily port it in that way. Thanks for the idea. Then there is
no need to mess with the binding.
On 8/3/2022 10:27 PM, t...@wescottdesign.com wrote:
Consider instead setting up Nuance Dragon Dictate to put LyX into
LaTeX insertion mode, then translate LaTeX directly.
This will give you everything that LyX can give you, with the benefit
-- to other users if not immediately to you -- of being useful for any
tool that supports LaTeX, not least being folks who might light to
author documents in LaTeX directly.
Quoting Jodin Morey :
Hello Lyx Developers,
My name is Jodin, and I recently graduated with my doctorate in
mathematics. I have a disability which requires me to use voice
recognition to input mathematics into my computer. For the last 10
years or so, I have used three pieces of software (on Windows) to
accomplish this. However, recently two of these software packages
(Scientific Notebook and MathTalk) stopped being supported (the
underlying companies went out of business). As a result, I have been
looking for some other software I might be able to use. The voice
recognition software I use (the primary desktop voice recognition
software in existence) is Nuance Dragon Dictate. It was recently
purchased by Microsoft, so it is doubtful that this piece of software
will become unsupported anytime soon. However, there are no longer
any off-the-shelf software packages which translate the recognized
words into math, so I am interested in developing something along
these lines. In particular, I thought I might develop something
around Lyx.
It's unfortunate that the voice technology allowing people with
disabilities to write mathematics has recently disappeared. I am
hopeful that Lyx can become the future provider of this capability.
I like Lyx because it is open source, and I wish to avoid relying on
another piece of software that is profit based, and might go out of
business someday. The idea is to create hundreds of scripts in
Dragon Dictate. That way, when I say "VarOmega," for example, Dragon
Dictate will turn my voice into words, recognize the words as a
Dragon Dictate Script, which can then choose from a pulldown menu on
Lyx, or just enter the right keystrokes.
The main barrier I face right now (other than the time it will take
to develop all of the scripts), is that many of the mathematical
objects in Lyx are not available either through a menubar or
keystroke. So my request to the developers would be to add keystroke
accessibility to as many mathematical objects as possible. To make
things easier, these keystrokes do not need to be documented in any
way. You needn't add the keystroke information on the user interface
(for example, when you hover your mouse over the button for the math
object, or in the help documentation). The point would not be to
offer the average user a quick keystroke. And to that end, the
keystroke could be very obscure (e.g., Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Meta+K), it
doesn't need to be simple at all. Doing this does not limit Dragon
Dictate's ability to type the keystroke, and simultaneously opens up
a lot of keystrokes.
Regardless, I will start developing this the voice recognition
capacity with the keystrokes you currently have available, as I need
it for my own purposes. However, I believe developing this more
comprehensively is an important thing for the disability community.
And I believe the coding effort required is somewhat minimal.
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