Naturally Speaking for Disabilities

You Can Do Everything by Voice!

Voice Recognition allows you to fully control a PC by talking and with voice commands. It levels the playing field. It's the Equalizer.

By just talking, you can dictate and edit memos, create letters, address envelopes, create reports, fax and print documents, and more. You can also move the cursor around the screen and control mouse clicks, all completely by voice.

You can do all this work as fast, if not even faster, than someone with years of typing and PC experience.

Upper body injuries:

Voice Recognition allows the user to create any type of document entirely by voice control. Without touching a keyboard or mouse, you can load programs, control a PC, open documents, surf the Internet, and create, send and receive e-mail. Also, fill out forms, modify text, move around within documents, control the mouse and the printer.

Speech impairments:

Voice Recognition systems are trained to learn the way the user makes speech sounds. The system even accommodates those with respirators or degenerative diseases. Voice macros can be created to type whole sentences, and control the functions of the computer, by having the user repeat different sounds of the users choosing.

Vision impairments:

Voice Recognition allows the user to type by voice, plus get audio feedback to acknowledge the users dictation and commands were understood. For example, say “Paragraph New”, and the PC presses the enter key twice and announces it has started a new paragraph. Included with the Voice program is a screen reading program that reads the words on the screen, allowing the user to hear back what has been typed. The screen reading aspect can also be used to read other text you may have on the PC, (e-mails, letters, and other text).  

The users voice is also stored, allowing an assistant to proofread the document, clicking on any word in question. The assistant hears the user actually saying that word in question, so they can correct the word without bothering the user.

Learning disabilities:

Voice recognition technology can be of great benefit to people of all ages that suffer from learning disabilities.

The screen reading functions within the program are of great benefit for dyslexia and reading problems.

By being able to dictate what they’re thinking , the system keeps up with the users thoughts, getting those ideas quickly down on paper. Also by providing visual reinforcement of their words on the screen, it helps to organize what they are trying to communicate.

Environmental Control by Voice

Speech recognition is especially helpful for those with severe physical disabilities.  You can control the mouse, by using voice commands. You can move or drag the mouse around the screen and press the mouse buttons, all by voice.

Open up the world by being able to surf the internet, and send and receive e-mail, totally by voice.  Have the PC type long complicated e-mail addresses, just by saying a command of your choosing.  Move around within internet web sites by voice. Jump to your favorite web locations by saying command names of your choosing. Scroll through web pages and fill out web input forms, all through voice commands.

Control of your home appliances with X-10 Control

By voice, you can command X-10 devices, which allow you to turn on and off the electricity to any appliance.  X-10 devices are small boxes the size of a cigarette pack. They plug into your wall sockets, and your electric appliances plug into the X-10. Each X-10 device has its own address. Once plugged in, when you give the prepared command, the PC sends signals through your house wiring to turn the X-10 on and off. Use commands like: “Living Room Lights On”, “Corner Lamp Off”, “All Fans Off”, or “Desk Fan On”.  It is possible in this manner to control up to 256 X-10 devices by voice.

Infrared (IR) Control

Every remote device, (for controlling VCR’s, TV’s and Stereo’s), sends out IR signals. Our system can be trained to duplicate every IR signal, from every button of all your remotes. We then create voice commands to completely control your devices. Use this to issue commands like: “TV On”, “Channel 8”, “Volume Up”, “Start VCR”, “Play CD”.

Examples of environmental control by voice: