Dragon Speech Recognition for Differently Abled People

It has been suggested that one of the most important promising areas for the application of speech recognition is in helping disabled persons. Dragon Speech Recognition software does full justice on it. Speech recognition is the underlying technology that powers voice assistants. They provide a way for computers to understand the human spoken word. Although they’re advertised as a means to improve productivity, they can be a game changer for the disabled. This is especially true if operating computing devices is difficult due to upper limb problems.

How Dragon Speech Recognition helps in overcoming disabilities

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 your  PC, open documents, surf the net, and create, send and receive email. Also, fill out forms, modify text, move around within documents, control  the mouse and printer.

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 the text you may have on the PC (emails, letters and other texts)

The user’s voice is also stored, allowing an assistant to proof read the document, clicking on any word in question. The assistant here is the heat user actually saying that word in question. So they can correct the word without asking 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 programs are of great benefit for Dyslexia and reading problems.

By being able to dictate what they’re thinking, the system keeps up with the user thoughts, getting those ideas quickly down on paper. Also by providing visual reinforcement of the words on the screen, it helps organised what they are trying to communicate. They can later edit and organised the text into completed works.