[JAWSLite] Re: Jaws Scripts for Dragon

The Oqo is not the generic counterpart, or counter-part as you put it, of 
the Smalltalk Ultra. The Smalltak Ultra *is* an Oqo which GW Micro took, 
unmodified, raised the price on, and called it their own.

Bruce

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On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Chip Orange wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> I think your idea is spot-on.
>
> In vista, there's free speech recognition built-in, which is reportedly
> as accurate as that of Dragon, and MS has just released a beta of an
> add-on product for the speech recognition which gives it macros
> capability (the product is referred to as WSR macros, and it's
> downloadable if you search for it).
>
> I'm switching to window eyes, not intending to start any arguments here,
> but I'm going to use it's scripting facility to interface it with the
> speech recognition macros, to do just what you describe: a very
> light-weight interface to give us a talking/listening computer.  I'm
> sure anyone determined enough can do the same with the jaws scripting
> facility.
>
> It sounds like Dragon has an API of some sort, and I  know that some
> versions (I think professional?) have scripting capabilities, so it
> should be possible to have the same light-weight interface using Dragon
> scripting.
>
> Maybe someone could even use the SayTools from Jamal Mazrui so that it's
> screen-reader independent (if the dragon scripts can interface with
> SayTools that is).
>
> I think your quite right about where interfaces are going; and once you
> consider this idea, have a look at the SmallTalk Ultra being sold by GW,
> or it's generic counter-part from Oqo.  It's a fully functional laptop
> computer (with a 120 gb hard drive or 64 gb solid-state drive), that
> weighs around 1 pound and can clip to your belt.  It's got Bluetooth and
> wifi built-in, and an optional ev-do card.  You could use a bluetooth
> headset to talk to it and have it talk to you, wear it on your belt, and
> go somewhere with your hands free and have your computer available to
> you at any time.  Maybe even someone will develope some talking GPS
> software for it????
>
> FYI, if this interests you, it's been told to me that you can buy models
> with faster processor and more money from Oqo, or an Oqo dealer, than
> the Ultra being sold by GW Micro, but I haven't verified this for
> certain.  Perhaps GW would order you the same enhanced models if you
> want; their thing is that they only sell it with a copy of window eyes
> installed.
>
> I've seen it in use, with an omni-directional barcode scanner attached,
> clipped to someone's belt, and using wifi and a free window eyes script
> which let it lookup the scanned barcode on an internet database and give
> you an instantaneous product description.  It was a very impressive demo
> of what a computer without a keyboard can be used for.
>
> Nice brain-storming with you; please let me know if you come up with
> anything along these lines.
>
> Chip
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Chip Orange
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> Florida Public Service Commission
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>
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> necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Bullis
>> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:22 PM
>> To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [JAWSLite] Jaws Scripts for Dragon
>>
>> I'm sure this subject has come up many times and there is
>> probably some
>> obvious reason for why the proposal I'm going to make hasn't
>> been done, but
>> I'd sure like to know it.
>>
>> I recently began some experimentation with jsay, the
>> commercial program that
>> interfaces with Dragon Naturally Speaking.  Although the
>> program has some
>> nice features, I'm not sure it doesn't do far more than it
>> needs to do and
>> I'm troubled by the numerous times it seems to actually slow
>> down my ability
>> to use dragon.
>>
>> I've been a dragon user for a couple of years without jsay or any jaws
>> scripts.  Yes, there are features I can't use as I would
>> like, but, I do use
>> the program fairly effectively.  What I'd really like are simply a few
>> scripts that allow access to the Dragon bar more easily and to the
>> correction box.  Jaws sometimes loses focus and can't read specific
>> information dragon is trying to convey.  But, I'm not sure creating an
>> entire interface as jsay does is really the answer.
>> So, I'm wondering why somebody doesn't just create some jaws
>> scripts and
>> sell them for a bit of cash.  I think that for the sighted as
>> well as the
>> blind the era is coming when most of us talk to our
>> computers.  I don't
>> think that the sighted public will type when there is an alternative.
>> Dragon is much more user friendly than it has been in the
>> past and training
>> that use to be time consuming is now very very quick and
>> easy.  Being able
>> to put information on a page at 200 words a minute is really
>> liberating, and
>> I say that as someone who is a pretty fast typist.  But, I
>> can't compete
>> with Dragon.  Furthermore, there is never a mis-spelled word
>> with Dragon.
>> Yes, there are wrong words, but not mis-spelled ones.  Even
>> this wrong word
>> phenomena goes away once one learns how to tell Dragon what you meant.
>>
>> So, are there some scripts out there that I just can't find?
>> Or, are there
>> some reasons that I'm not considering as to why scripts haven't been
>> developed?
>> Mike Bullis
>> Baltimore Maryland
>>
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