[macvoiceover] Re: Mac Speech Dictate
- From: Basil Clement <basilclement@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:44:32 +0000
Hi Chris.
Thank you for your response. Yes, I was meaning the screen reader. Having
said that, after a sufficient quantity of whiskey (always assuming one can ever
have a sufficient quantity), anything and everything is either usable or
possible. Grin.
Basil
On 28 Dec 2009, at 20:30, Chris Hofstader wrote:
> 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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