Re: Persona Survey results
Hi All, I read the survey last night and it makes interesting reading. A few people mentioned Dragonsoft programs such as Naturally Speaking and Dictate. Forgive me if I am wrong but earlier this year I was looking at these sort of programs. Naturally Speaking has not undergone any development for over 2 years and is now half price in Amazon. When I also discovered that voice recognition is vastly improved in Windows 7 I leapt to the conclusion that Microsoft have bought Dragonsoft and incorporated their product into Windows. I may be wrong but this sort of thing has happened often - Roxio cd burner, Visio CAD and Winternals to name the obvious ones. Against my better nature I bought a copy of Win7 to see for myself and found nothing as good as this in Linux. -- Best Wishes Maurice -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Persona Survey results
On 8/21/2010 6:59 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: Hi All, I read the survey last night and it makes interesting reading. A few people mentioned Dragonsoft programs such as Naturally Speaking and Dictate. Forgive me if I am wrong but earlier this year I was looking at these sort of programs. Naturally Speaking has not undergone any development for over 2 years and is now half price in Amazon. When I also discovered that voice recognition is vastly improved in Windows 7 I leapt to the conclusion that Microsoft have bought Dragonsoft and incorporated their product into Windows. I may be wrong but this sort of thing has happened often - Roxio cd burner, Visio CAD and Winternals to name the obvious ones. NaturallySpeaking version 11 was just released. It has been improved but not in the ways that matters. It has a bunch of gui improvements, some speed and accuracy improvements. I can't find out if they've improved the number of a that controls it works with. I can almost guarantee you it does not work with any of the open source edit controls such as gtk+ or wxwindows. On the other hand, there's been a lot of activity in the wine community and I would not be surprised if this was the year we had a working solution. Windows speech recognition is completely separate from nuance. I've been told it's on par with NaturallySpeaking 10.1. Unfortunately, Microsoft is even less responsive to the needs of the disabled than nuance. Quite a pity. One of the Microsoft developers was hanging out on the voice coder list and helped out significantly with using Microsoft's speech recognition and then he vanished when we started asking questions, hard questions about bug fixes. We call this the I think I hear my mommy calling effect. Against my better nature I bought a copy of Win7 to see for myself and found nothing as good as this in Linux. Isn't it exhilarating When you find something nice (er) than what you've ever known and horrifying to realize you can never be satisfied with either environment. For example, I've been looking at a bunch of windows IDE's in the vain hope that I will find one that will work with NaturallySpeaking. But in my exposure to these different tools and user interfaces, I've come to find that I like some of them better than Emacs but they still fall short so I find myself stuck between modern Windows gui's and emacs and neither work with speech recognition. Isn't that exquisite? It makes me weep. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Persona Survey results
On 8/21/2010 6:59 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: Hi All, I read the survey last night and it makes interesting reading. A few people mentioned Dragonsoft programs such as Naturally Speaking and Dictate. Forgive me if I am wrong but earlier this year I was looking at these sort of programs. Naturally Speaking has not undergone any development for over 2 years and is now half price in Amazon. When I also discovered that voice recognition is vastly improved in Windows 7 I leapt to the conclusion that Microsoft have bought Dragonsoft and incorporated their product into Windows. I may be wrong but this sort of thing has happened often - Roxio cd burner, Visio CAD and Winternals to name the obvious ones. NaturallySpeaking version 11 was just released. It has been improved but not in the ways that matters. It has a bunch of gui improvements, some speed and accuracy improvements. I can't find out if they've improved the number of a that controls it works with. I can almost guarantee you it does not work with any of the open source edit controls such as gtk+ or wxwindows. On the other hand, there's been a lot of activity in the wine community and I would not be surprised if this was the year we had a working solution. Windows speech recognition is completely separate from nuance. I've been told it's on par with NaturallySpeaking 10.1. Unfortunately, Microsoft is even less responsive to the needs of the disabled than nuance. Quite a pity. One of the Microsoft developers was hanging out on the voice coder list and helped out significantly with using Microsoft's speech recognition and then he vanished when we started asking questions, hard questions about bug fixes. We call this the I think I hear my mommy calling effect. Against my better nature I bought a copy of Win7 to see for myself and found nothing as good as this in Linux. Isn't it exhilarating When you find something nice (er) than what you've ever known and horrifying to realize you can never be satisfied with either environment. For example, I've been looking at a bunch of windows IDE's in the vain hope that I will find one that will work with NaturallySpeaking. But in my exposure to these different tools and user interfaces, I've come to find that I like some of them better than Emacs but they still fall short so I find myself stuck between modern Windows gui's and emacs and neither work with speech recognition. Isn't that exquisite? It makes me weep. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: Persona Survey results
Thanks for the correction Eric And, yes, it is annoyingly tantalising when these things happen. Thanks for the info about Windows and Nuance, too. On a different topic: 1. I'd be delighted if a sound module could be written for grub2 so that you could hear the menu entries for different booting options. 2. Would it be so diffcult to write a narrator for open office? ods and odt files are zipped xml file collections so for a /simple/ odt file you could chain an xml to text convertor to a text to speech convertor such as festival. This would be difficult in a spreadsheet however as you would easily lose the relation between different cells. -- Best Wishes Maurice On 21/08/2010, Eric S. Johansson e...@harvee.org wrote: NaturallySpeaking version 11 was just released. It has been improved but not in the ways that matters. ... -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
Re: usb headphones question
Josh Are your headphones not listed in System - preferences - sound? They shoud be if lsusb lists the headset. You ought to be able to select them instead of the onboard sound. As you have vinux then, another try is to plug them in and then in a terminal do $ sudo restoresound Wait a couple of minutes to s ee if the script completes as it calls quite a lot of other programs. Good Luck Maurice On 21/08/2010, Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi In order to use my usb headphones I have to first plug them in, reboot the computer and then they show up in my list of sound choices. I am using ubuntu lucid vinux 3.0. But if I plug them in without rebooting if I use alsamixer alsamixer says they are there but if I go into the ubuntu alt f1 menu into system preferences sounds I cannot choose them. I can only choose them as a sound card option after rebooting. Why is this? Can this be changed? Ubuntu picks up other devices without rebooting so why must I reboot just to use usb headphones? email off list at jkenn...@gmail.com Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
