I have a question about vioce recognition in the library.  If a person has
to train their voice in order to have it work accurately and unless a
person is a regular user of the same machine, how can you justify
purchasing Drag and Dictate and justify its use?  I have set up in our
libraries workstations with Zoomtext Xtra Level2, Jaws 3.2, and Kurzweil
1000 and 3000.  I'm hoping this covers most needs.  I would love to hear
from someone who has a workstation in a library that is actively used by
more than say 10 people.  This is all new to me.
Carol



At 03:33 PM 2/22/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I recently acquired the responsibility of maintaining the assistive devices
>for our library.
>
>We have one stand-alone computer which has JAWS, pwWebSpeak, and Dragon
>Dictate installed on it.
>
>Again, I am new to this list and new to this technology so perhaps what I
>am going to ask has already been discussed.
>
>The problem is that all three of the devices can "read" web pages but they
>all have limits especially with frames or any pages with heavy Java or as
>it seems ANY type of new technology beyond Lynx.
>
>JAWS reads the web pages but I'm sure you have JAWS you know that it reads
>from side to side ignoring frames, etc...
>
>pwWebSpeak understands such divisions (frames) etc.. but for any high
>graphic web page (Disney web page is a good example) it is virtually
>useless as it cannot even connect or read some pages.
>
>Dragon Dictate is a bit cumbersome for me and the most I could do is
>highlight a certain portion of the text and tell it to "Read that" and I
>was dictated the information with a voice synthesizer I could barely
>understand.
>
>Can you tell I am frustrated!?!
>
>Our version of Jaws is 3.2, pwWebSpeak is Release 2, and Dragon Dictate is
>version 3.0.
>
>Does anyone know of anything which can meet student's needs better?
>anything being developed currently?
>
>If not, I'll need to develop some patience and quickly!
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Ellen Dickman
>Reference Librarian
>Eden-Webster Library
>475 E. Lockwood Ave
>St. Louis MO 63119
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