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 Sent from my iPhone 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! > >>> > >>> > >>> Lori Russell > >>> Golden BC > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >