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Re: Voice Controlled Assistive Technology

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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Feb 7, 2005 9:52AM

bryce.fields37 wrote:
> I have a colleague wondering what are the options available when it
> comes to voice controlled assistive technologies. Specifically, are
> their any technologies available that would allow a user to control
> their OS via voice command rather than a traditional mouse and/or
> keyboard interface?

The two biggies here are Dragon Naturally Speaking, and IBM's ViaVoice.

There is also a "combo" of Dragon and Jaws that is known as Jawbone.

Dragon: http://www.scansoft.com/naturallyspeaking/

ViaVoice: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/voice/viavoice/

Jawbone: http://www.synapseadaptive.com/henter2/Jawbone/jawbone_software.htm