TalkSerotek: Re: Vista Speech Recognition and the latest System Access Update
- From: "Casey" <csm120@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:42:08 -0400
I don't know, I haven't tried it.
Casey
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Hi,
Does system access work good with the speech recognition in windows xp?
Josh
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From: "Casey" <csm120@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 10:12 AM
Subject: TalkSerotek: Vista Speech Recognition and the latest System Access
Update
> Hey everyone I'm grabbin this from the blind confidential blog. Anyone
> that using isa, and especially speach recognition will like this one!
>
> For most of this week, I have run a new beta of System Access almost
> exclusively on my Vista computer. I’ve stuck to System Access because
> “Monster” Matt
> Campbell, over a few days hacking last week, has created the best
> out-of-the-box solution for the Vista Speech Recognition system. I have
> not tried J-Vist
> yet and I expect it will perform well as everything else that I’ve tried
> that Brian has written works great.
>
> Window-Eyes and JAWS without J-Vist work poorly in the various Speech
> Recognition dialogues and not at all when dictating into Word 2007. With
> Both WE
> and JAWS, I could complete the speech recognition tutorial and perform
> some of the training tasks. For both JAWS and Window-Eyes a user must use
> the JAWS
> Cursor or Window-Eyes Mouse Cursor extensively to get the speech
> recognition features to talk at all. In System Access, Monster Matt has,
> excepting fairly
> minor bugs (remember I did say it is beta software) really made speech
> recognition a pleasure to use.
>
> When dictating into Word 2007 with either JAWS or Window-Eyes, absolutely
> nothing gets read back to the user. Setting screen echo to “all” (a
> technique
> that works for me in Word 2003 with JAWS and Dragon) didn’t cause JAWS to
> read back any of the information I had dictated and in Notepad and WordPad
> caused
> JAWS and Window-Eyes to speak far too much and I assume that Vista must be
> repainting the edit window far more often than one would expect.
>
> With this System Access beta, the text I dictate is read back after the
> recognition engine processes the information and I can tell when the
> recognition
> system has made a mistake and correct it. The correction dialogue works
> very nicely with SA as does the spelling dialogue in which a user can
> speak the
> correct spelling of a word to the system and, from which, the recognition
> software’s accuracy will improve.
>
> Using JAWS, I issued the verbal “correct that” command and, with the JAWS
> cursor, I could find the correction dialogue laying atop my MS Word file
> with
> its text intertwingled with the text in my document. One can sort of use
> JAWS if they don’t mind issuing a lot of SayLine keystrokes to hear what
> they
> have dictated and poking around a lot with the JAWS cursor to find the
> correction dialogues. It is nearly impossible to use JAWS or Window-Eyes
> as a hands
> free solution with Vista Speech Recognition; System Access can be used
> very nicely and, excepting some odd situations, an SA user can go almost
> entirely
> hands free after the recognition system is trained well enough to
> understand your voice.
>
> So, System Access, the lowest priced screen access program, without the
> user needing to purchase any additional software, outperforms the two
> leading screen
> readers by a substantial margin in the Vista speech recognition system.
> For me, having a hands free system that I can use when my RSI problems
> flare up
> badly, is a major improvement to an otherwise difficult situation.
>
> Once the Serotek guys post this as an update, I recommend people give it a
> try and, if you are patient (a virtue required of all speech recognition
> users),
> I will bet you find it impressive.
>
> I would also like to tip my hat to the guys at Microsoft for doing a
> terrific job with the voice recognition features in Vista. Having
> faithfully used
> it for a few days now, I would say that it performs similarly to Dragon
> Naturally Speaking and SA users will soon have access to it by default.
>
> -- End
>
> --
> Casey
>
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