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Date: Mon, Feb 07 2005 7:18AM
Subject: Voice Controlled Assistive Technology
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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?
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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Mon, Feb 07 2005 9:52AM
Subject: Re: Voice Controlled Assistive Technology
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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
From: michael.brockington
Date: Mon, Feb 07 2005 10:17AM
Subject: Re: Voice Controlled Assistive Technology
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If you are open to any modern OS then a good choice would be Mac OS X.
As you will see at http://www.apple.com/accessibility/physical/ it has speech
recognition built in, with a number of add-ons available.
Mike
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> 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?
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Date: Mon, Feb 07 2005 10:28AM
Subject: Re: Voice Controlled Assistive Technology
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also of interest is the tiger release of OSX with its built in screen
reader technology - voice over
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/voiceover.html
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:17:07 -0000, michael.brockington
wrote:
>
> If you are open to any modern OS then a good choice would be Mac OS X.
> As you will see at http://www.apple.com/accessibility/physical/ it has speech
> recognition built in, with a number of add-ons available.
>
> Mike