+3 (or 4 or 5) on the relative unreliability of a voice switch.
But depending on the purpose, especially for reading… I would definitely look at a switch with a “recipe” for ipad if they have one already. If the caregiver
opens the book for them, then the recipe can make it pretty efficient.
But if they do not have an ipad, I have had pretty good luck with just using Dragon on the Kindle app on a PC and teaching my client to just say “press right
arrow” to turn pages, following a caregiver opening the book for them. This particular client had a fair number of memory deficits but moved into using mouse commands to manage his library.
If reading is the only goal, I would argue that you can do it more cheaply and possibly efficiently with a inexpensive laptop and Dragon… Just to throw the thought
out there…
Ed Hitchcock OT/L
Technology Center
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
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I totally agree on the voice activation/switch thing - I just wanted to make people aware of the option. In general, I am bias against voice activated anything
because you cannot make it 100% accurate.
FYI, there is a new feature in iOS scanning called Recipes that can greatly improve the usability, and there is already one set up for turning pages in iBooks.
This is something to look into for those wanting to use scanning for reading books.
Also, there is another new feature - always tap - that speeds things up a bit as well, and it can make it so that with single switch you do not have to do a double
tap to get to the scanner menu - something that can be challenging for some.
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From: "Linskell Jeremy (NHS TAYSIDE)" <xxxxxx@nhs.net>
Date: Thu, January 28, 2016 2:34 am
To: "xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com>
Switch control of most mainstream Apps is so cumbersome as to make it almost not worthwhile – I’ve tried many eBook Apps with Blue 2 and only one client has ever persevered with it and even they gave up and went for PC tablet access in the end. But I wanted to caution against voice activated switches for complex scanning like this, in general. Devices like this don’t differentiate between the types of sound so environmental noises and other sounds produced by the client all have an effect and they don’t have ‘pause/sleep’ function. We have one environmental control user who uses voice activation in bed, because we have exhausted all other possibilities, and he wouldn’t use it if there was any other reasonable option for him.
Cheers
Jeremy
Jeremy Linskell CEng, CSci, MIPEM
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Ninewells Hospital
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From: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com [mailto:xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Antoinette Verdone
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 9:43 PM
To: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: Hey Siri
There is such a thing as a voice switch that could be used with switch control to perform the functions that Siri won't do:
I don't have experience with these, and would probably want to use a more "traditional" switch, but just wanted to throw this out there.
Antoinette Verdone, MSBME, ATP
Owner, Lead Consultant
ImproveAbility, LLC
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On Jan 27, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Alisa Brownlee <xxxxxx@alsa-national.org> wrote:I know Hey Siri can allow a person w/ no hand function but a good voice to make a phone call w/ the iPhone.
My question is would Hey Siri work with a Kindle app? I hand a PALS w/ no hand function they wants to read through voice activation.
Thanks for any help
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