[senit] Voice Activation

Hi All

We've been quite pleasantly impressed with the way the Voice 
Activation/Speech Recognition works within Microsoft Vista. The operating 
system itself sure needs the tweakings of that first Service Pack (still to 
come) but the "Say what You See" system has worked well for a variety of 
users. 

Of course the age of the students matters. For the youngest I'd still 
suggest trying SpeakQ from the WordQ people in Canada. Above secondary you 
still might find Dragon superior because you can pre-buy the complex 
vocabularies. 

Others on the list will have other ideas. 

Ira David Socol
Special Education Technology Scholar
CEPSE
College of Education
Michigan State University
socolira at msu.edu
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/ 

Mike Carter writes: 

> Hi All
> I have been asked to support a school in introducing voice activated software/hardware into school. The only experience I have is with the early versions of Dragon dictate. 
> Has anyone gt any ideas suggestions, pointers advice etc. on what to purchase. Many thanks
> Mike 
> 
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