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

[James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6yr]

Robert,
I note that you did not include the phone number or pin for participation in the teleconference.
jc

At 10:52 PM 10/23/2011, you wrote:
>NEXT WEEK!
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>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:
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Pranav
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>Robert Leslie Newman
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>President, Omaha Chapter NFB
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>President, NFB Writers' Division
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