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

[Robert Leslie Newman]

Jim

Yes, though I didn't notice, it was a copy of the first notice about this
opportunity- thinking of course --- the dial in scoop would come closer to
the event. And I'm thinking now, that it would have "been time" to have put
that in. Nice catch --- thank you.

Hope you and your wife are doing well! 

(I'm off to Carney, Nebraska for a week. I'll be a mentor to a new
commission for the Blind VR Counselor.)



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From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of James H. "Jim" Canaday M.A. N6yr
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 11:13 PM
To: newmanrl at cox.net; Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] October Telephone gathering- Using Voice as a Writing
Tool

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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