Re: Software for LD Students?

[z_robertsomt@TITAN.SFASU.EDU]

I just purchased a speech to text program called Via Voice 98. It works
with Word 97 and does a lot of neat stuff (spreadsheets, e-mail, evolving
dictionary, etc.). It was less than a hundred bucks and has been great for
the painful process of squuueeeezing out a rough draft.

Micah Robertson
SFASU

On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, James Werchan wrote:

> At 11:29 AM 10/9/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >A colleague has asked me to pose this question to the list:  Does anyone
> >have experience with writing software designed specifically for students
> >with learning disabilities?
> >
> >Feel free to respond to me off-list.  Any feedback is appreciated.
> >
> >Alison Russell
> ................................................................
> I have no experience directly, but a dyslexic friend-- a motorola software
> engineer--  set up his PC to generate speech from text.  He used it as an
> auditory "jumper-cable" around his reading problem.  Nowadays there are
> speech-recognition-to-text packages that are 95-plus percent accurate.
> 
> It's worth a shot.
> 
> jw
> 
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