Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello everyone, For a lot of health-related reasons that I won't go into, I need to slowly explore alternatives to keyboard input. My thinking is that I would use Nuance products; a recommendation for what to order would be needed. I would also like to use my BrailleNote Apex for Braille

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mike, I've just been looking at Dragon Dictate for you, but it doesn't seem to work with German. I can find French and English, but nothing else. Have you contacted Nuance to ask them about it? As for your Braille display, I'm afraid I can't help there, either. Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Alex Hall
The apex under Lion acts very oddly; letters expand to their grade 2 words immediately, backspace and enter don't work, and you can't assign commands. I have contacted Apple about this and they said they would contact Humanware for an updated driver. However, Humanware says that it is up to Apple,

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Alex, This is helpful indeed. I don't believe that pairing the Apex with the Mac is all that straightforward, and I believe that the problem lies with Humanware. For as expensive as the Apex is, I can't help but be disappointed in its software. That's a different story for a different

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Anne, As usual, your insights are helpful. I am sure that a German version is available, but I will check with Nuance, just to be sure. I have two questions for you: 1. Did English and French come bundled, or did you have to buy each language separately? 2. What kind, if any headset

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mike, I'm afraid I don't use Dragon Dictate. I just looked it up for you. They only have German for Mac OS X up to Snow Leopard because it uses Rosetta. They couldn't tell us when a Lion version for German would be available. I'm never likely to use any dictation software as I was

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Alex Hall
Sure. My email is mehg...@gmail.com. It is actually a pretty easy process, but is not done how you might expect. On 9/1/11, Michael Busboom m...@busboom.at wrote: Hello Alex, This is helpful indeed. I don't believe that pairing the Apex with the Mac is all that straightforward, and I believe