Dictation apps have a variety of use cases. They are to assist a student where they find difficulty getting ideas down on a page and feel their spelling and grammar are not up to scratch.
You might be more inclined to get all your thoughts out first and review them later, rather than revising ideas as you form them.
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Listed below are the most commonly used voice recognition technologies. Voice recognition software lets you dictate documents, search the web, e-mail, and more on your computer quickly and accurately just by using your voice.
Voice dictation software can allow complete hands-free access and control of a computer. Such control requires an investment from the student in time to train the software to recognise the user’s voice. Once complete, it can be an incredibly enabling technology particularly for users with keyboard difficulties e.g. people with dexterity and mobility problems. When used in conjunction with a keyboard this software can help users word-process more effectively. At Trinity we have opted for natural speech recognition called Dragon Naturally Speaking.
Please note that Dragon is used to take dictation from a single user's voice and cannot take multiple voice inputs and tones to dictate into a single document.
There is no free trial in the use of the Dragon software as the user must be willing to spend time with the software for it to recognise the voice and to become familiar with the commands.
There are many different version of Dragon available, please consult with the Assistive Technology officer before purchasing such software.
Dragon transforms the PC experience by turning your voice into text and actionable commands much faster than most people can type.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking Tutorial 1: Getting Started
Dragon 13 is highly accurate speech recognition software right out-of-the-box; however, there are still ways you can improve its overall accuracy.
For more on Dragon software, see their website at: https://www.nuance.com/dragon.html
If you already own a laptop that runs Windows 7/8 or you own an Imac or Macbook, these systems come with inbuilt voice recognition available for you to use:
Speech Recognition in Mac OS X enables your Mac to recognize and respond to your voice. The only thing you need to use it is a microphone, and all laptops and iMacs have a built-in mic these days. To start using Speech Recognition, launch System Preferences and follow these steps:
Open the Speech System Preferences pane.
Click the Speech Recognition tab, and click the Settings subtab.
Click the On button for Speakable Items.
In addition to Siri, the "personal assistant" that has received much fanfare since it's release, your Apple mobile OS includes the "keyboard dictation". Both Siri and the keyboard dictation use cloud-based speech recognition.
It is important to understand a few things about all speech recognition:
Optimizing Accuracy
The new iPad supports dictation, so you can talk to it and have your words turned into text, complete with punctuation and formatting. Here are tips and tricks to better dictation.
To start in Windows10:
Microsoft speech to text is alive and well in Windows 8. We're still not sure of the status of speech to text in Windows RT so this tutorial assumes that you are using either standard Windows 8 or Windows 8 pro. Speech recognition software can be used to not only dictate but to control both desktop and Start Screen (Metro) programs and applications.
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