[macvoiceover] Re: Mac Speech Dictate
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:30:06 -0500
I have MacSpeech Dictate. The question, "is it usable in conjunction with VO?"
depends upon your definition of usable and of VO.
The MacSpeech guys licensed the Dragon engine and cross platform UI library
from Nuance. They have done as little as possible to make the interface
accessible under OSX by adding any of the aspects of the accessibility API code
to their owner drawn controls (they do, infrequently, use standard controls and
get the accessibility for free here and there). Various features work
acceptably but many of the most important ones: basic training, correcting
misinterpretations, improving accuracy, etc. can hardly be described, in my
book at least, as "usable" as, although some of them can be performed with a
lot of cursor switching and serious poking around, these features really suck
with VoiceOver.
As for your definition of VO, I'm assuming you mean the killer screen access
tool on Macintosh and not the Canadian Whiskey from Seagram's <laugh>.
Happy Hacking,
cdh
On Dec 28, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Basil Clement wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is there anyone on the list with experience of Mac Speech Dictate? If so, is
> it usable in conjunction with VO?
>
> Many thanks:
> Basil
>
>
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