Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 2:12 PM
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Subject: RE: Voice control for imac
FYI Dragon for Mac was discontinued as far as I know. I know the link below works but per this, it is no longer supported. http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/27843/~/dragon-professional-for-mac-6%3A-end-of-life%2C-end-of-support-dates
Windows SR is OK in my opinion, but just OK. Accuracy is not as good, and if you are using the cloud dictation, nowhere near as much for commands is available. If I was on windows I would want to do Dragon…
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Sent: Monday, February 04, 2019 1:17 PM
To: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: Voice control for imac
Yeah, unfortunately voice commands on Apple products aren't quite as robust as we need! You can do a teeny bit more than just dictation- like editing a bit, which you can check out here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203085
Windows has a much more robust speech recognition system built in- it's honestly pretty great!
You can always add the Dragon Naturally Speaking software to a Mac to build up what commands you can do with your voice, but if a user is super-high tech, maybe just double check with the support line that it will be able to do everything they need. For instance, I had a user who was having some trouble with some Excel commands in the Mac version.
http://www.nuancesoftwarestore.com/dragon-professional-individual-mac/
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Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 11:06:45 AM
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Subject: Re: Voice control for imac
Also, switch access is available on Mac.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:08 AM Eva <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for the best options for using voice control on iMac for a pal without use of hands but no bulbar symptoms.
Also, I need a crash course on voice controls in general-this may be broad, but does anyone have any resources or recommendations?
Eva
Eva Koenig MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
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