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James Nuttall (Keep trying)
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Date Posted: 04:59:36 07/03/07 Tue
In reply to:
Bernard
's message, "Dyselxia Assessment Results - Adult" on 09:37:09 07/01/07 Sun
I would keep trying to reach your dreams. If you need help with learning to read lookup your local "International Dyslexia Association".
There are also things that can help you read on the computer. Here are some recommendations for some text-to-speech programs which will allow your computer to read to your student. A program that I often use on my computer is TextAloud, ($50 with the voices). This program can read any text in any Windows program. It also comes with an Internet Explorer or Firefox plug-in which can help in read webpages. I find TextAloud is the best program for reading webpages.
I can also recommend that you might want to look at the software programs available from Premier Assistive, . Premier Assistive as an MP3 player/flash drive called "Key to Access" ($350). Key to access has about 10 different programs to assist students with reading and writing. Premier Assistive has excellent programs. In fact, Premier Assistive has a grant program that allows school districts get their software for free. So if your district says they have no money for software this is a good bet to help them get some assistive software for LD students.
The Cadillac of scanning and reading programs is Kurzweil 3000 ($1500). A number of school districts use this program. www.Kurzweiledu.com . The nice thing about Kurzweil 3000 is the page that is to be read looks exactly like the page in the book. It has study skills and a simple word processor.
Speech recognition software is very helpful with the writing process. Speech recognition software allows you to dictate to your computer and the computer does the typing, as well as, the spelling. The two best speech recognition systems today are Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5 (editions Standard-$100, Preferred-$200) , www.nuance.com , and Microsoft's new operating system Vista. Microsoft Vista has speech recognition built into the operating system. Both of these approaches to speech recognition are 99% accurate in turning dictation into written text.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Microsoft Vista both only take about 10 minutes to train the software to recognize your voice. Both Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Microsoft Vista come in different levels. The speech recognition is identical between the different levels of each software system. So paying more money will not provide you with more accurate speech recognition. I am using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5 to dictate this message to you.
It takes a while to get used to dictating to your computer. I spent about a year to become really proficient at dictating and learning all of the commands to control my computer by voice. I'm really glad that I took the time to learn how to run speech recognition. Speech recognition is the most exciting thing that you can do on the computer today.
Keep looking for a solution, I'm sure you'll find one.
Jim Nuttall -- Michigan
Dictated with speech recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.1.
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