I worked for 6 years with a young man in high school who was totally blind, totally paralyzed (on a ventilator) from a brain tumor. He used JAWS and J-Say with much success. He just needed someone to put on his headphone/microphone, and press the button to start the computer, and we had it set that JAWS and J-Say were running upon startup, so he knew what his files were called to open them by voice. Once he was set up, he could dictate into his document, print, etc. with no problems.
He is still using it pretty much independently. Lori Russell Golden BC On 24/02/2013 12:19 AM, Linda Woodbury wrote:
Sorry to hound this subject, but looking for best limited hands with text-to-speech and speech-to-text. I'm totally blind, not real technical, used JSay as the bridge 5 years ago, and now have a diagnosis of possibly rapidly advancing Parkinson's. I liked JSay and am just a little concerned if a nontech person can manage it ongoingly. I've just learned that Windoweyes works directly with Dragon but trusted JSay and now looking also at Serotek. Tim Sniffen's web resources and Gary's comments have really been useful. Any solid advice is very much appreciated regarding today's good set-up that won't necessarily need lots of expensive ongoing-support. Thanks. Linda Woodbury lwoodbury@xxxxxxxxxx 858 229-1921 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Wunder" <gwunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:35 AM Subject: [j-say list] Re: Anyone know a comparison with Serotek and JSAY?Hello, Linda. I assume what you are asking is whether it is possible to use the speech recognition product from Dragon NaturallySpeaking with the Serotek system access program rather than using it with JAWS and J-Say. The answer is yes, but there is no special support such as what you find in J-Say. You can certainly dictate, but there will be no speak line, speak sentence, speak paragraph, indicate the status of the microphone, or any such other J-Say function you might use. Essentially you are on your own in terms of determining whether your microphone is on or off, and if you want a line spoken, you must use the keyboard to do this function. There is also no special accommodation for the correction box and many other things that we take for granted when using J-Say. The long and short is that you can certainly dictate into Dragon NaturallySpeaking with System Access , but there are none of the bills and whistles you have become accustomed to if you are a J-Say user. Warmly, Gary -----Original Message----- From: j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:j-say-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linda Woodbury Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:01 PM To: j-say@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 greaterI 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 itup?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 shouldrestore the .wav files for the mic status.Regarding the less greater...this is the system processing sound when inthe 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 withwhen 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 goingto sleep? We have J-Say sounds enabled.Secondly, it keeps saying "less than, greater" when he isn't dictating butthe 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 thatpreviously, but didn't have it saying "less than, greater" every second over and over.Thanks for any help! Lori Russell Golden BC
