[Oz-gifted] Assisitive technology fo uni

[Anna V]

On 26 Nov 2005 at 13:41, tony nolan wrote:
> 
> For word process, I like the MS-Word for the voice recognition and the
> text to voice option. When I write some thing on the computer, i like
> to get the text to voice to read it back to me, to see how it sounds.
> It might not be the best voice, but you get used to it, and it can
> help a lot. The voice recognition gets better as you use it, and over
> time it gets very accurate, and it saves time in many ways. But it
> does take its time to get it to work well.

Dragon Naturally Speaking is a much better program if people are 
considering voice to text.  You do need a very good sound card 
and it's not a good program for laptop computers.  But then 
neither is MS Word.

DNS is reasonably cheap compared to what it used to cost.  
About $260.

anna