[nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer with a Tablet and handwriting software

Fri Jan 27 04:28:48 UTC 2012

Why? Because the hype often exceeds the reality. That may or may not be the
case in this instance but the blurbs I saw didn't really say much about
actually doing OCR on the text but, rather, association of text with
recordings.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Albert J Rizzi
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:51 PM
To: 'National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer with
a Tablet and handwriting software

Mike, that is where you are mistaken. this does recognize handwriting. Do a
Google search on it and then get back to us. very new, about a year or so
old, and very workable. Also, allows the user to independently hand write
and keep there own notes. Just an option  which also could and should
include braille.  why is it that when options  that are there for our blind
community to use and access, while being very present in the 21st century
always draws discussion and resistance?

Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computerwith
a Tablet and handwriting software

I confess that this seems more like a gimmick to me as opposed to a really
useful device. Why not either use an electronic note-taker or, in a pinch,
record with a BookSense or Victor Reader Stream than buy a specialized
device that doesn't really translate handwriting and still involves a second
person which these other technologies do not.

Mike

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From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Albert J Rizzi
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer with
a Tablet and handwriting software

One and all,

There is a technology out there that would and could all at once  satisfy
everyone, while promoting independence. It is called the echo smart pen. It
is sold with a note pad, that when used in combination  with the pen or
stylus allows any student to write what notes they want, and then have them
recorded in a micro chip in the pen, that will allow the writer to down load
the hand written notes to a computer in a text format that allows the
student of any age, provided they can write independently, to take control
over their own sense and need in determining the importance of what the
teacher is saying, when taking notes. It is under $200 and sold at target.

Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
Founder
My Blind Spot, Inc.
90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.
New York, New York  10004
www.myblindspot.org
PH: 917-553-0347
Fax: 212-858-5759
"The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is
doing it."

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Mike Freeman
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:13 PM
To: 'National Organization of Blind Educators Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer
witha Tablet and handwriting software

Um, how is independence of blind students served by having others take notes
for them?

Also, it would appear to me that such a system would constrain the person
dragooned into taking notes to write in legibile English rather than in the
shorthand of abbreviations that virtually all of us used when taking notes.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nobe-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Dr. Denise M Robinson
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:27 PM
To: Discussion about issues related to blindness; National Organization of
Blind Educators Mailing List
Subject: [nobe-l] Digital Handwriting -change to Text on a computer with a
Tablet and handwriting software

So I have been using the digimemo for some time now, really trying it out to
see if it is all that. Well, it IS all that. More importantly, I have
figured out how a blind person can do this all by themselves.

One of the greatest problems for blind students in school is how to get
handwritten notes as the teacher writes them in the front of the room. Now
they can get those notes on a digimemo and can translate them into text that
their talking software will read INDEPENDENTLY. They just hand the writing
tablet to a sighted student who is taking notes for themselves anyway. They
finish the notes, take their copy and hand the pad back to the blind
student. The blind student takes the pad and uses a computer to translate
the handwritten notes into text for themselves.

Yes, a para educator can do all this, but it will not make the student
independent and the para educator is not going to graduate and do all this
when for them in college or at their job. Using the*
DigiMemo<http://www.amazon.com/SolidTek-DigiMemo-692-Digital-Notepad/dp/B000
9OD4CS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1327607962&sr=8-2>
* and the handwriting software now gives a blind person the opportunity to
get the information they need and translate the handwriting by themselves
using a computer.

If you would like to get an idea of how this works, watch this video from
start to finish and be Wowed. Yep, it is that impressive. Translate
Handwriting into Text on a computer with a Tablet and handwriting
software-audio/visual
lesson<http://www.yourtechvision.com/content/digital-handwriting-change-text
-computer-tablet-and-handwriting-software>

--
 Denise

Denise M. Robinson, TVI, Ph.D.
CEO, TechVision, LLC
Virtual Instructor for blind/low vision
509-674-1853

Website with hundreds of informational articles & lessons all done with
keystrokes: www.yourtechvision.com

"The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who is
doing it." --Chinese Proverb

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly
slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond
imagination.
--Albert Einstein

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney
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