Chip, I must respectfully disagree with the idea that there are no good choices with window-eyes. Unless of course I hve misread your comment, see my explanation below. I could be way off base, but here are my thoughts. Dragon works wonderfully and the added functionality with knowbrainer 2013, www.knowbrainer.com, allows you to write pretty powerful scripts using a vb-based language that has a lot of template commands built into it. Speechstart by pcbyvoice, www.pcbyvoice.com also interacts with wsr and dragon to let you control the microphone by voice and has some other visual elements that those with low vision would be able to use to highlight certain elements on the screen.
You are correct about the jaws scripts, and, if I recall, isn't their scripting language proprietary? Honestly, I haven't used your wsr script just because I use dragon and not the windows engine. The one thing that the windows speech recognition does better than dragon is recognize and play nicely with window-eyes and a braille display in Microsoft word and office-based applications. Please note, I am not writing about knowbrainer and speechstart to solicit the products, but merely pointing out that their added functionality has made it easier for me to use Dragon with Window-eyes in general. Dragon is actually a pretty screen reader friendly program, the hotkeys dialogue in dragon 13 is dodgy though, requiring editing of an ini file to get it to work right with a screen reader, all of the screen readers crash when you try to put in hotkeys, I tried all three main ones. Anyway, just my two cents on the issues. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chip Orange via Talk Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2015 9:04 PM To: [email protected]; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' Subject: RE: Dictation Programs, WE, and Operating Systems Sorry, there are no good choices with Window-Eyes. Just so you know, I believe the version of Dragon you would need, and the extra macros you would need, if you owned jaws, would run near an extra thousand dollars (I believe), so while there's a choice, I think it's got a hefty price tag. That's why I wrote a demo macro for the built-in (free!) Windows speech recognition called WSR. I had always hoped someone who had the time would use it to create a full macro suite (free or commercial) to use with the free WSR, because I spent time training it and using it for a while, and it recognized about as good as Dragon (but of course it has almost no support and no documentation, it's not a separate commercial product). I think the best route is to become a scripter and use that demo macro of mine to get started and write your own speech macro system. I think however there is some question as to whether Windows 10 will continue to support this built-in speech recognition with its macro interface, because they are adding a second free speech recognition which does not have a macro interface. Not nearly so powerful by the reports I've seen. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dulce Muccio Weisenborn via Talk Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 8:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Dictation Programs, WE, and Operating Systems Which operating system (Win 7 or 8) and dictation program (Naturally Speaking, for example) work best? _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/lists3717%40co mcast.net. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/dcbahr1%40gmai l.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
