JSay basic questions (was jaws and dragon naturally speaking)
- From: Yardbird <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:38:44 -0800
this is a very basic question, and I'd appreciate someone clarifying it for
me: I'm a Jaws user. I don't know much about voice recognition software like
DNS. From what I've gathered, JSsay is software that allows Jaws and DNS to
be used together, in ways I haven't been able to imagine but trust is the
case.
Well, my question is, what is it that JSay actually does? Is it something
you can't do without if you're a jaws user and want to dictate to your
computer? Otherwise, let's see, how would it not work for you? You would
have to exit Jaws, launch DNC (when I hear "dnc," I keep thinking of the
National Democratic Committee and Howard Dean, and that's not meant to be a
divisive partisan comment) and then DNC would allow you to dictate instead
of type, assuming you could type, but then to read and possibly edit what
you'd dictated, you'd have to exit DNS and launch Jaws again, and so on,
back and forth? Or am I not imagining accurately how all this would work? If
I'm way off, how *would* it work?
Thanks.
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From: "Peter" <peterholdstock@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Oh so your using J-Say. That's a shame, thought it might have been without.
As I have full use of my arms I couldn't justify the cost of both J-Say and
Dragon.
Peterb
From: Chris Jenkins
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 7:27 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Hello Jeff.
Just a few of the things that you will have to get used to while dictating
or as follows. The biggest thing is keeping control of the microphone
meaning making sure that the microphone is asleep when you are not using it
for example when someone comes into your office or cubicle and wants to
carry on a conversation with you. I would say the next biggest thing is to
learn how to talk without using filler words such as o m, or and. If you are
going to be using speech recognition software while on the phone with
customers you will have a whole other set of problems to overcome. For
example where now you can type and speak to the customer at the same time of
course you will not be able to speak to dragon naturally speaking and the
customer at the same time. You should at least take all this into
consideration before making an investment into speech recognition software.
I will say for me Dragon naturally speaking along with J--Say is the best
purchase I ever made.
I hope this helps.
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 1:48 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Thanks Pat,
If you didn't have to spend a great deal of time teaching it to recognize
your voice, where does the learning curve come in? This is for work where I
have XP. Do you think that it would be significantly different from Vista
with DNS?
Jeff
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Pat L
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:36 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Jeffrey,
I have experimented with DNS 10 and have been very favorably impressed. The
speech recognition out of the box without training was remarkably good. I
was able to dictate a few test e-mails with surprisingly good results.
However, there is a steep learning curve to master this feature rich
program. The program is cheap - I was able to buy it from Nuance on a
promotion for around $50. If you are willing to make the investment and
devote time to the learning process, it might work for you. As of now, I
can't afford the time to use it consistently, but that may not be true for
you.
HTH,
Pat
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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Russell Solowoniuk
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:06 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
Hi Jeffrey,
I've never used DNS with Jaws, but I did have some success with the built in
speech recognition in Windows Vista, using System Access.
HTH
Russell
From: Jeffrey Schwartz
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:41 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: jaws and dragon naturally speaking
I'm in my early sixties and between contact sports when young and sighted
and decades of copious typing, I fear that I have developed arthritis in my
hands. I'd like to use Dragon. The party line from FS is that one can only
do it with Dragon Professional and the T and T consultancy intermediate
program. I believe that I have heard one or two on this list say that they
use Dragon Naturally Speaking directly with jaws. I'd be grateful for any
feedback on this issue
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