Re: jaws speech recognition software
- From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 11:10:05 -0500
Hi,
Personally, I wouldn't use speech recognition either at work or at home. At
work, it would probably prove distracting to others. I, for one, do not work
in my own office. I have a cubicle and I have someone to my immediate left
and someone behind me. I would feel really self-conscious if they had to hear
me dictating and I'm sure they wouldn't be all that thrilled to hear me
dictating either. Using speech output with headphones and good, old-fashioned
qwerty keyboard input is working quite well for me. My home life can be pretty
raucous since I have a toddler and my wife loves to have the TV on. I don't
know how background noises would affect the speech input. Plus, you have to
enunciate, and the thing has to get used to your accent and speech patterns,
and cares if you have a cold or something and I just don't want to fool with
it.
My 2 cents,
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: Renette Bloem
To: jaws mailing list (jaws mailing list)
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 7:04 AM
Subject: jaws speech recognition software
Dear All
I got an inquiry about speech recognition software from a sighted person.
The guy obviously does not know the difference between Jaws and for example
Dragon Naturally Speaking.
This made me curious:
If Dragon Naturally Speaking (or other kinds of speech recognition software
for that matter) is so easy to use, fast and convenient, why would anybody
bother to type or use the mouse and keyboard and I would like to include Jaws
users here.
Jaws users then need Jaws to read to them, but why would we bother to handle
Excel, Word ect. If speech recognition is so easy?
Thanks.
Renette
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