Alice;
I would also recommend looking at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~dcfox/dragon/
. These are web pages that David Fox, a grad. student at Harvard, put
together to disseminate information about programming with voice
recognition software. Some of it is out of date but it still has useful tips.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you'd like more information.
Kathy
At 12:25 PM 2/13/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi EASI list,
>
>Has anyone have advise for or experience with the following?:
>
>
> I am a webmaster over in Space Science
>and Engineering Center - SSEC (I believe we have met), and lately I have
>
>been having problems with typing due to overstrained forearm muscles.
>So,
>I have started considering using voice recognition software to
>supplement
>keyboard use, so that I can give my forearms a chance to fully heal, and
>
>to possibly use permanently as this current problem has made me
>aware of the potential pitfalls of my job.
> So, to make a long story short, do you have any advice on what voice
>recognition
>software is the best (i.e. IBM Via Voice, Dragon Naturally Speaking
>...), and whether
>something like this would work in my type of job (i.e. using
>Dreamweaver, UNIX
>command line, lots of programming by hand in HTML, Perl, JavaScript
>...)? I have
>done some research and I am aware that training this software to be
>reasonably good
>at recognizing my voice will take some time, and that it will probably
>never be as fast
>as typing (especially for programming which involves a lot of non-word,
>programming language dependent letter groupings and made-up variable
>names). Anyway, any
>advice on this would be helpful. Thanks.
>
>
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>
>Alice Anderson, Division of Information Technology
>Communications, Organizational & Student Initiatives
>Technology Access Program Coordinator
>University of Wisconsin-Madison
>1210 W. Dayton Street, Room 2173,
>Madison, WI 53706
>phone 608-262-2129, fax 608-262-0123
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MIT Adaptive Technology (ATIC) lab
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