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

I forgot the link to CMU sphinx: https://cmusphinx.github.io/

On Thu, May 7, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Mallory wrote:
> 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) <
> > <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > > Good afternoon,
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Michael Moore
> > > EIR Accessibility Supervisor
> > > Civil Rights Office
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