[j-say list] Re: Anyone know a comparison with Serotek and JSAY?

  • From: ROBERT FENTON <robert.fenton@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:09:59 -0700 (MST)

Ed's point is valid. I only use it for very limited things such as dictating a 
very short email when I am in a hurry. For any extensive dictating work, I use 
Dragon and Jay say.

Bob Fenton

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On 2013-02-21, at 2:06 PM, "Ed. Rosenthal" <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Linda- what a pleasure to hear from you...hope all is well in sunny SoCal.
>  
> IMHO, windows speech recognition (WSR) isn't ready for prime time use.  
> Others (below) may feel differently, but I've found few sighted or blind 
> folks who use WSR for production purposes.
>  
> -ed.
>  
> From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Harry Brown
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:44 AM
> To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [j-say list] Re: Anyone know a comparison with Serotek and JSAY?
>  
> Hi bob,
> Fantastic post!
> You mentioned you use both to do different things.
> Can you tell us what things you use each one to do?
> Harry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ROBERT FENTON
> To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:13 PM
> Subject: [j-say list] Re: Anyone know a comparison with Serotek and JSAY?
>  
> Remember though that that particular speech recognition program does not have 
> the same power as Dragon with respect to the use of macros and other speech 
> shortening techniques that many of us use. You will have to do a side-by-side 
> comparison of each of the speech programs to determine what meet your needs. 
> I actually have both and use both for different things. Thanks.
> 
> Bob Fenton
>  
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 2013-02-21, at 11:04 AM, "Harry Brown" <wd8oep2464@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Linda,
> It's faborable.
> System Access works with the built in speech recognition in windows 7, 
> without dragon naturally speaking.
> Harry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Linda Woodbury
> To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 6:01 PM
> Subject: [j-say list] Anyone know a comparison with Serotek and JSAY?
>  
> Has anyone out there used Serotek as well as JSay and if so, how do you find 
> it?  Comparison?
> Linda Woodbury
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Camidge" <chevycov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 6:56 AM
> Subject: [j-say list] Re: mic status sounds and less greater
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > I would like to know what is the latest version of JSay out there please 
> > let
> > me know thank you
> > send
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Lori Russell
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:24 PM
> > To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [j-say list] Re: mic status sounds and less greater
> >
> > I did a repair of J-Say, but we still have no sound when the mic turns on.
> > We have J-Say Sounds set to ENABLED.
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> > Lori Russell
> > Golden BC
> >
> > On 15/02/2013 7:31 AM, Gary Wunder wrote:
> >> I believe you run the J-Say installer, and when it sees that you have
> >> a copy of J-Say already installed, it will ask you whether you want to
> >> modify, repair, or uninstall the product.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >> On Behalf Of Lori Russell
> >> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 8:10 AM
> >> To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [j-say list] Re: mic status sounds and less greater
> >>
> >> Can someone tell me how to run the repair of J-Say?  We couldn't get
> >> the J-Say Config window to come up (He would say "Get Wizard" and it
> >> recognized the command, but nothing happened).  It worked before but
> >> for some reason wouldn't work this time.
> >>
> >> Can't figure out what the J-Say key is to bring it up manually (it's
> >> not the ` key).  He's using a laptop.  Is there another way to bring it
> > up?
> >>
> >> Lori Russell
> >> Golden BC
> >>
> >> On 06/02/2013 7:18 AM, Ed. Rosenthal wrote:
> >>> Lori- let me suggest that you run a repair install of JSay and it
> >>> should
> >> restore the .wav files for the mic status.
> >>> Regarding the less greater...this is the system processing sound when
> >>> in
> >> the sleep state.  If this is a Win 7 laptop make sure that the
> >> 'onboard' mic has been disabled (this is a known Win 7 bug whereby the
> >> onboard mic isn't muted when an external mic is plugged in).  In
> >> addition you may find that cycling the mic to 'true off' and back
> >> using Shift + f11 minimizes this less greater issue.
> >>> -ed.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >>> On Behalf Of Lori Russell
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:05 PM
> >>> To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Subject: [j-say list] Speaking contents of dictation box, etc.
> >>>
> >>> The young man I am currently help with J-Say/JAWS is a boy I worked
> >>> with
> >> when he was in high school. At the time, we had JAWS/J-Say, etc. all
> >> set up perfectly .... unfortunately when he got a new laptop and new
> >> version of JAWS, his settings weren't transferred I don't think. His
> >> voice profile was transferred though.
> >>> Prior, we had it set that when he said "Wake up", there would be a
> > "dong!"
> >> sound to let him know it had responded.  We have it set to echo his
> >> commands, but to be sure, he still has to say "Check microphone".
> >>> Does anyone know how to set it so it makes a sound when awakening or
> >>> going
> >> to sleep?  We have J-Say sounds enabled.
> >>> Secondly, it keeps saying "less than, greater" when he isn't
> >>> dictating but
> >> the microphone is on (it's speaking what is showing in the dictation 
> >> box).
> >> That's very distracting and annoying when he's trying to think about
> >> what to type.  It didn't do that before.  How do we change that?
> >>> We have "echo commands" on, which is very helpful to him, and we had
> >>> that
> >> previously, but didn't have it saying "less than, greater" every
> >> second over and over.
> >>> Thanks for any help!
> >>>
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> >>> Lori Russell
> >>> Golden BC
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