[games_access] Best Speech to Text Software?

[Thomas Westin]

ouch, yeah ticks are common around Stockholm and I suspect it was a  
tick that gave me a facial palsy in my late teens, me right side of  
the face was totally immovable, couldn't even blink with my eye

a totally different approach would be to skip text at all and use this  
(haven't tested it)
http://www.speechtoolscenter.com/

/thomas

On 20 jul 2008, at 01.26, d. michelle hinn wrote:

> 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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