So if I was only going to use speech recognition program on the PC, I would probably go with Dragon over Windows speech recognition at this point. Hands down. As noted, I have seen Windows speech recognition to be kind of buggy. And you can buy Dragon
13 home version which is still more functional than Windows speech recognition for around 35 or $40 on Amazon. All of that being said, any speech recognition for the computer is going to require fairly specific dictation skills that do not usually lend themselves
to conversations, especially in a group. Also, Windows speech recognition and Dragon are both going to be trained to an individual speaker, you would not be able to pass them around.
If I were you guys I would go with a android tablet and use Google speech recognition into a memo pad. You can route audio from a Bluetooth microphone. Additionally, Google speech recognition will pick up conversations and comments from multiple speakers
with different voices. I doubt that it will do it all at once, people need to be careful to speak one at a time into the microphone. Also, it will help a lot if they do use punctuation and try to stick with relatively clear speech.
To my knowledge, Siri is going to be speaker trainable, thus not as good for this purpose. Additionally given some recent research I did it sounds like you cannot route audio through a Bluetooth headset for speech recognition purposes on iOS.
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Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:42 PM
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Subject: Speech recognition guidance needed
Hi All,
As a speech therapist I don't do as much work with speech recognition as many of you. I could use some guidance for some challenges I am having with one patient.
I am working with a man who had brainstem stroke. He is cognitively and linguistically intact but became deaf, paralyzed and non-verbal when he had a stroke. His eye movement is severely reduced too
and one eye was sewn shut since he was not blinking adequately to prevent ulceration.
For speech generation and computer access on a Zuvo SGD, I set him up with auto scanning which he can do with the slightest movement of his thumb.
In order for others to communicate with him we were using writing on a BoogieBoard but this is laborious and slow. I clamped the family's Surface with Windows 10 to the mount for his Zuvo (using the
JoyFactory clamping tablet mount which is affordable and good) and turned on Windows Speech Recognition and Notepad. We are using a hands free headset mic with a USB connection to the Surface for dictation.
His wife and visitors speak with Tagalog accented English. His kids speak with American accented English. The system initially did not recognize much of his wife's speech but after I had the her go
through the brief voice training for the Windows Speech Recognition software it worked much better. It was faster and easier than writing for her. She is the only one using the system at this point.
We are having a few challenges. Here are our questions.
1. The wife says every time she uses the Windows Speech Recognition it acts as if she has not done the training and she has to do it again. Is this normal for this program?
2. She is willing to buy Dragon if it will work better. All we are doing is text entry. Is it worth the upgrade?
3. Is there a system that works best when multiple speakers are using the Speech Recognition within the same session?
4. Would a wireless mic that could be passed around to various conversation partners in the room work as well as a connected USB mic?
5. Do people think the technology is good enough to have several speakers all understood? (with the same accent? with differing accents?)
Sincerely,
Amy Roman, MS, CCC-SLP
Augmentative Communication Specialist
Amy Roman, MS, CCC-SLP
Augmentative Communication Specialist
Forbes Norris ALS Research and Treatment Center
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San Francisco, CA 94115
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