[games_access] Best Speech to Text Software?

[Barrie Ellis]

Hi Michelle,

Not good...

AbilityNet have a very good PDF on speech to text:

http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/content/factsheets/pdfs/Voice%20Recognition%20Software%20-%20An%20Introduction.pdf

May be of some use?

Have a speedy recovery.

Barrie



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d. michelle hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:26 AM
Subject: [games_access] Best Speech to Text Software?


> Hi all,
>
> As you know I'm battling lyme disease (tick-bourne -- most likely I was 
> bitten a few weeks ago when I was outside in a wooded area) and I hurt so 
> much that typing even a small bit is extremely painful. We have lots to 
> figure out with regard to GDC and I'm asking the leaders there to give us 
> a couple day emergency extension. However I think we have enough written 
> from the last 5 years to get proposals in on time.
>
> In the meantime...I have never had much success with Dragon Dictate -- any 
> other speech to text recommendations? I don't have any fine motor control 
> so mouth sticks, etc are completely out for me until the antibiotic starts 
> kicking in and the pain starts letting up.
>
> Right now it's amazingly painful to even type just this little bit -- 
> my fingers, toes, all joints, my neck, face...everything HURTS...not just 
> aches. Not sure how common lyme disease is in other parts of the world but 
> I've heard from a lot of the north american SIG members and it seems that 
> everyone knows or is related to someone who has recently had it! So look 
> for invisible little bugs or their larger bites and rashes if you are 
> outdoors, especially in wooded or recently de-forested areas! This is NOT 
> something to get (as if it was on anyone's "to do" list!). I feel like I'm 
> about 85 and I can hardly shuffle from room to room!
>
> Anyway, if you have any suggestions as to assistive tech for me, let me 
> know! This experience has given me quite a renewed sense of what we do in 
> the SIG -- it would be nice to be able to do something other than type a 
> message in great pain when I get enough strength to do it and watch reruns 
> on television.
>
> Thanks everyone!
> Michelle
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