The main problem with speech recognition is that although many charities are advising dyslexics to use the software, it does not specifically cater for a dyslexic market. As far as I can tell, the program is aimed at the office worker market.
When you first install your speech recognition software you need to complete the training … Read more about ‘Guest blog - Speech recognition: dealing with the problems’
Due to my dyslexia and dyspraxia, I find handwriting impossible. This made essay writing at school incredibly frustrating as I wasn’t able to get all my ideas down and subsequently scored terrible marks.
I tried learning to touch type but this was a long and gruelling process and I could only type short paragraphs before the … Read more about ‘Guest blog - Speech recognition: talking the talk’
That’s appointments taken care of, but another issue is how to organise tasks.
For a while now, I’ve been using remember the milk.com which is a web-based task list I can access from a computer. This has been brilliant but has the disadvantage that if I’m not by computer, it is very unlikely I’ll remember … Read more about ‘Guest blog - Forgetting to remember’
As a dyslexic, one of the main problems I have is organising myself. I seem to spend half my time trying to decide what I am meant to be doing and where I am meant to be. By the time I’ve figured it out, I’ve missed an appointment or wasted an afternoon. Some people get … Read more about ‘Guest blog - Where to be and when, the joys of timetables and appointments’
On 4 March, I came across an article on the BBC News web site reporting that some researchers at Stamford University and at Edinburgh University found, Computers find male voices ‘harder to recognise’. Now I am male and as I cannot hand write, I have been using voice recognition technology (VRT) since I was 10 … Read more about ‘Guest blog - Computers find male voices harder to recognise - Oh dear’
