I don't know, I haven't tried it. Casey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh" <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxx> To: <talk-serotek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:29 PM Subject: TalkSerotek: Re: Vista Speech Recognition and the latest System Access Update Hi, Does system access work good with the speech recognition in windows xp? Josh Most of the reason I don't like spam is because a lot of it is true. email: jkenn337@xxxxxxxxx msn: kenn6498ku@xxxxxxxxxxx AOL: kutztownstudent skype: jkenn337 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Casey" <csm120@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <talk-serotek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit > www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. > NjYzzIXXڅֱxj֒Ǣ~+Jr{rzˢ+֒Ǣעxj֒Ǣz˭ˢع&{zˍ)rz)n7Xx > +yۮȽ뵩V+' zzG The Talk Serotek mailing list Post to the list by sending a message to: talk-serotek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe/Unsubscribe: //freelists.org/list/talk-serotek or by sending a message to talk-serotek-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with subscribe in the subject line, or unsubscribe in the subject line. 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