I changed the subject line from Nolon Krab to better reflect this topic.

The original poster made the infrence that adding speech recognition would
illiminate the necessity for script or macrofiles or set files because you
could "tell" the computer what to do.

You would actually need to write more macro files in this case.  Because
you would need to teach the speach recog software what "close window
means" or "move mouse" or any phrase.  The speech recog software is
relatively dumb.  You can set up macros that cause the mouse to move and
click on things and attach those macros to voice command but you still
would have had to have the macro in place first.

So this doesn't really solve any problems.  It might just cause a few
more.  Not to mention the fact that you would have to hear everything you
said twice because you need to confirm that what you said is what the
computer thought you said.



Dan

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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Peter Altschul wrote:

> Hi, Folks:
>
> This sounds interesting, but I have no clue if it is doable.
>
> Reactions?
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> Peter Altschul
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> >Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 13:21:10 -0500
> >From: Sharon Geddes <[log in to unmask]>
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> >Subject: Nolan Crabb
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> >+== acb-l Message from Sharon Geddes <[log in to unmask]> ==+
> >After watching me try, with difficulty to pick a screen reader, then
> >navigate about both Windows 3.11 and Windows 95, my assistant made
> >a suggestion.  Many efforts have been put into trying to get the
> >companies to make their products accessible.  Why not combine Dragon
> >Dictate with a screen reader into one program.  We could give the
> >computer commands vergbally, thus eliminating set files, macros, and
> >other difficulties.  We could also have a screen reader which would read
> >the computer screen to us.  This is just a suggestion, but I feel it is a
> >good one, and would like to see someone try it.
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