[OPLINTECH] Hearing impared

[shivelri@oplin.org]

So you are wanting a device that others could speak into so a deaf 
person could read the text, and would be portable. I assume you are 
wanting this for staff communication with said deaf patrons?

If this is the case you might consider picking up an iPod Touch ($200) 
and downloading Dragon Dictation (FREE!) made by Nuance. I have played 
with it a little on my iPhone and it is a decent program, you definitely 
need to annunciate your words though. The Dictation App just allows you 
to convert speech to text in a notepad like environment and does allow 
editing after speaking. Nuance also has software that you can buy for 
your computers, here is their website: 
http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/

It looks like the computer software is more of a voice interface, 
allowing you to operate several popular programs and the windows 
environment by voice (as long as it doesn't start asking me why I'm 
doing something I'm ok with it). So it seems to mainly be for people 
without the use of their hands but could be used for what you need. The 
basic edition cost about $100 dollars and they have more intensive 
editions with more features, might be nice if you have some physically 
impaired patrons, though I'm not to sure how well it would work in a 
noisy environment.

Well I hope this is helpful.

Richard Shively
IT/Webmaster
Greenville Public Library
520 Sycamore, Greenville Oh. 45331
937-548-3915



Dan Moore wrote:
> Wondering if any one has any experience with speech to text for the 
> hearing impaired?  Ideally this would be a stand alone portable unit.  
> We have experimented with this feature in windows but it is pretty 
> voice specific and thus does not really meet our needs...  Thanks for 
> any thought or suggestions on this....
>
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