Re: Issues for Integrating Dragon Naturally Speaking
- From: "Jerry Richer" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:19:09 -0500
Bill! Naturally Speaking works fine with JAWS. The trick is to get
Naturally Speaking installed with your particular voice profile. You have
to read one of the little stories that Naturally Speaking presents on the
screen in order to train it to know your voice. You could theoretically do
this with the aid of a sighted person. I started the process once but never
finished. I picked out the story I wanted to read and a friend read it onto
my Sony digital recorder but that's as far as I got.
There are two software packages allowing a blind JAWS user to install
Naturally Speaking and train it by themselves. They are JawBone and J-Say.
JawBone costs $590.00. That's not bad enough but it will work only with
Naturally Speaking Professional which is $695.00. Chirping Bat sells them
for less than that but they are still expensive. J-Say version 2.0 is just
being released for $440.00 and this price includes Naturally Speaking
Preferred. In addition J-Say will work with any version of Naturally
Speaking from Preferred up. I use J-
Say with Naturally Speaking Preferred and I can do everything I want. I can
read, write and send email. I can operate Internet Explorer, Sound Forge,
WinAmp, Word, Notepad, Calculator etc, all with my voice and for the most
part, hands free. Sometimes I get stuck and I have to cheat with a keyboard
but overall it's hands free. If I used it more maybe I would figure out how
to eliminate the keyboard entirely.
Once you have Naturally Speaking installed and trained with the help of
J-Say and once you've used it enough to know how to operate your computer
without depending on help from J-Say you can use Naturally Speaking with
Window Eyes.
J-Say has only been available in the United States for a couple of
months so their aren't a lot of users yet. Chirping Bat is the United
States importer of J-Say. Check it out at www.chirpingbat.com/j-say.shtml
Jerry
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