Tag Archives: speech recognition

Fire IE: trick Dragon and websites into thinking you’re using Internet Explorer (sometimes)

Posted on December 10, 2013 by hand2mouth

I noticed recently that some sites I used at work didn’t display properly in Firefox, whether I had Flash enabled or not. At home, I couldn’t read the comments on sites that used the Disqus commenting system. They worked fine … Continue reading →

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Reviews: SpeechWare TravelMike and SpeechWare 3-in-1 TableMike

Posted on November 24, 2013 by hand2mouth

I was having one problem after another recently with the Andrea Superbeam microphone and its drivers. So, even though my budget kind of hurt for it, I bought a SpeechWare 3-in-1 TableMike.

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Vocola commands for interactive fiction

Posted on July 4, 2013 by hand2mouth

It’s possible to dictate into many interactive fiction interpreters, such as Win Glulxe or Windows Frotz, but there are occasionally glitches–words run together, or the correction command doesn’t work right. These commands minimize the possibility of run-together words by inserting … Continue reading →

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Warning: Dragon 12 and Jarte

Posted on March 23, 2013 by hand2mouth

I am reminded again how precarious technology is. The other day I got an email from Jarte’s developer warning that it doesn’t work with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, even if Detect DNS is set to 1. I’m on 11.5, and am … Continue reading →

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Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plug-in: text to speech and autoscroll

Posted on December 27, 2012 by hand2mouth

I’ve written a Vocola command for autoscrolling Kindle for PC with Dragon, but if Vocola doesn’t work, there’s another (slightly roundabout) way: downloading Kindle for PC with Accessibility Plug-in. It’s the same as the original program, except for some added … Continue reading →

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Dragon 11.5 with a Lenovo ThinkPad T420, Flash, and a few considerations

Posted on December 26, 2012 by hand2mouth

O yeah, I owe reviews. Handy is rusty. The retaliation for speaking up for myself continues to be nasty and subtle and draining. This is not a post-ADA world. So, as I’m taking a snow day and dictating over the  … Continue reading →

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Access and a potentially shrinking world

Posted on February 9, 2012 by hand2mouth

Once again, this is not the post I wanted to write, but it’s important. I may elaborate later, but this post explains some of the self- and general advocacy I’ve been taken up with lately.

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Improve Dragon’s autoscroll in Firefox: Yet Another Smooth Scrolling

Posted on December 31, 2011 by hand2mouth

I’ve written before about how to change the auto scrolling speed/length in Dragon 11 using the Mouse settings in the Control Panel. However, if you only use auto scrolling for reading pages in Firefox, there’s an add-on that does the … Continue reading →

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Beat the Devil with your voice

Posted on September 9, 2011 by hand2mouth

The other day I was remembering a conversation I’d had with my grandmother, who was a big fan of card games. I’d asked her whom she’d beaten after she’d won a game of Solitaire. My grandmother shrugged and said, “The … Continue reading →

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Dragon 11.5 upgrade and small fix

Posted on September 3, 2011 by hand2mouth

So I downloaded the 11.5 upgrade for Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

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