[stylist] October Telephone gathering- Using Voice as a Writing Tool

[Robert Leslie Newman]

NEXT WEEK!

 

On Sunday October 30th, at 7:30 PM US Central- We will have a very
interesting demonstration of how a person can use our voice to write. Over
the years, I have gotten many inquiries about if this option was available
and how good was it? We have a member who uses it and says that today, it
works quite well. Pranav Lal, our member from India is going to demonstrate
it, using JAWS and Dragon Naturally Speaking and a special program that
bridges the two. Below, Pranav gives us a short write up of what he will
show us:

 

Until very recently, speech-recognition technology could not play well with
screen readers. You could use speech but it was the last resort. Things
changed with bridging technology called J-Say which bridges jaws for windows
and Dragon Naturally speaking. You can control the computer hands free
including navigating the desktop and operate applications such as Microsoft
Word, Internet Explorer, Excel and Firefox.

 

My focus will be on Microsoft Word since we are dealing with writers. You
can proof read text, navigate by sentence, paragraph, word etc. It is even
possible to navigate the ribbon interface via speech. Having said that,
J-Say can mask significant portions of the user interface so the learning
curve for new user is not that steep irrespective of the version of windows
and office being used. Commands remain consistent across applications. There
is plenty of context-sensitive help and the J-Say documentation is
comprehensive.

 

There are other technology combinations such as System Access with windows
speech recognition and the Dolphin Guide but as far as I know, Dragon
Naturally Speak is the most evolved program out there and it is what I use.

 

J-Say is made by a British company called T&T Consultancy Limited. You can
see their website at http://www.tandt-consultancy.com/ I have no affiliation
with the company except being a  satisfied customer and beta tester.

 

Pranav

 

 

 

Robert Leslie Newman

 

President, Omaha Chapter NFB

 

President, NFB Writers' Division

 

Division Website

 

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Chair, Newsletter Publication committee

 

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