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From: Mallory
Date: May 7, 2020 3:41AM

I agree with Lucy, and MSR relatively out-of-the-box usable, but if you just want more names if you get desperate:

Nerds and Linux users may be desperate enough to try coding their own and using the free/open source PocketSphinx (see/hear an OLD example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI). Sphinx is just the speech-recognition part, by Carnegie Mellon U; it has to be coupled on other programming to do any command-and-control.

Mac users: There is a program called Talon which does command-and-control coupled with Dragon for the speech-recognition part. There's a blog post https://whalequench.club/blog/2019/09/03/learning-to-speak-code.html and a Perl talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY that might be interesting. As a programmer, Shea was not on Windows so regular Dragon wasn't an option. Windows coders tend to code up all their needs with Dragon Pro so they can work in the terminal.

Of course all of the above is really for nerds; hopefully the fact that outside the disability community there's more attention towards voice-control due to the smart speakers means more easier-to-use and out-of-the-box solutions appear.

Hope this either helps or gives you something to put in a drawer for later.

cheers,
_mallory

On Wed, May 6, 2020, at 8:24 PM, Lucy GRECO wrote:
> If the person is using Windows I would recommend Microsoft speech
> recognition it's doing much better than it ever used to and doesn't inject
> anything like that into the system that I'm aware of let me know how it
> goes because we also need to start changing people over
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2020, 10:57 AM Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC) <
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> > Good afternoon,
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> > We have been providing Dragon Naturally Speaking software as an assistive
> > technology for staff who cannot use a mouse. Unfortunately, we have
> > encountered a problem where the JavaScript that is injected by Dragon into
> > the DOM is conflicting with script that runs within one of our applications
> > and causing browser crashes. Dragon's JS is using the global namespace so
> > we are a bit stuck.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend an alternative to Dragon that we might try? The
> > software needs to be able to run in Windows 10 (v 1.6) and IE 11.
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