[typeabilitybeta] Re: Dictation Typing Echo
- From: "Brian Hartgen" <Brian.Hartgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <typeabilitybeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:07:50 +0100
The "save" option would be good Dave. I'm having to shave a few minutes
off the audio CD because it will not fit into 74 minutes, but glad you
like the files.
Brian Hartgen
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From: typeabilitybeta-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:typeabilitybeta-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Pinto
Sent: Monday, 28 July 2008 7:02 PM
To: typeabilitybeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [typeabilitybeta] Re: Dictation Typing Echo
Brian,
No need to be delicate. We're all on a time crunch.
now, as you suggest, for Dictation tasks, I'll keep things as they are,
which is the lower voice, and the typing echo as the default setting.
Your MP3 tutorials are excellent! After listening to them, I noticed
something that I need to do in TypeAbility.
When you've just created a dictation task using the Create your own
Dictation dialog, then if you open that dialog again, I will include the
instructions to type Save, if you wish to save the last dictation task.
David
TypeAbility to
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Hartgen" <Brian.Hartgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <typeabilitybeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:03 AM
Subject: [typeabilitybeta] Re: Dictation Typing Echo
Hi David
Thank you for your message.
I am putting this quite delicately because I don't think you and I know
each other well enough yet (smile).
If you disagree with our view that the lower voice is better, of course
that is absolutely fine. But we are your beta testers and are the
people who will be out on the streets advocating the fantastic product
that you have. So at the very least please David keep the lower voice
in the product which Scott and I have agreed is the most appropriate
voice to use.
If you need to make the higher voice an option, that's cool as well
because you do have several options for speech rate etc so it would be
in keeping with some of the other user preferences. So you could have
an option for the low voice, high voice or no echo. That sounds like a
compromise.
Having the option of two voices would also assist people who have a
hearing loss and depending upon the condition will prefer different
frequency ranges. My daughter is a case in point. She is visually
impaired and has hearing difficulties and I know would prefer the lower
voice.
Certainly it would be helpful to have the low voice in the product as I
have now invested time in producing the audio CD which features that
voice.
Bottom line David: We need the lower voice now whatever happens, sorry.
I do hope that is helpful but please as always let me know if I can
assist further.
Brian Hartgen
Product Development Manager
T&T Consultancy Ltd
Advantage House
Trentham Business Quarter
Bellringer Road
Trentham
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[mailto:typeabilitybeta-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Pinto
Sent: Monday, 28 July 2008 4:57 PM
To: typeabilitybeta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [typeabilitybeta] Dictation Typing Echo
Brian,
I'm downloading your MP3's so that I can see how the dictation worked.
I'm
very concerned that the new feature of Echoing the words may be
confusing.
And I disagree with you and Scott that the lower voice is better. But
Perhaps after listening to your MP3 I'll revise my opinion. In either
case,
my reservations make me wonder if it should be an option, rather than
the
default.
For instance, When TypeAbility dictates, it turns Key Interrupt off, so
that
if you start typing when it dictates, the typing doesn't stop
TypeAbility
speech. In that case, the typing echo is delayed until after the current
chunk of dictation info has finished being spoken. Meanwhile, the user
may
have raced ahead an typed several words. This will result in a string of
instructions, followed by several words previously typed. For instance,
if
during a long dicatation task, you come up to the phrase, Go to the
store.
And TypeAbility dictates it to you, you may wind up with this string.
Type
Go to the store Go to! Well, that's confusing, because you hear the
instructions connected to the words you typed.
I could stop the typing echo from occuring whenever dictation
instructions
start. But, that would result in an inconsistency, and the user may
wonder
why they are not hearing the word that they typed.
If there are solutions to this, I want to implement them now. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm going out for breakfast during the download, and will return at 10
AM
Pacific time.
David
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