Hi Leslie:
I am working with a Down's child now with voice rec. But I have noticed
improvement with almost all students using VR in their articulation. You
might enjoy these case studies at:
http://www.the-literacy-center.com/chapterexrpts.htm.
The hardware and software that you use makes an enormous difference as to
how much success you experience. Can you tell me a bit about your computer
and its resources? I also much prefer DNS to VV. as the language model is
much better.
Best wishes,
Shelley
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Shelley Lacey-Castelot
The Literacy Center, LLC
Email: shelley-lacey-castelot@the-literacy-center.com
PO Box 821, Huntington, CT 06484 USA
Tel: 203-925-1232
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My name is Leslie Duffen and I am a new member of the list. I am a
retired computer studies teacher but my interest is largely personal. I
have a daughter called Sarah who has Down syndrome but who has done
remarkably well in spite of this congenital disadvantage. For example
she reads and speaks well, can drive a car safely at speeds frightening
to a passenger and can ski, water-ski, etc., etc. Sometimes her speech
is hard to understand but she does not always accept this. A year or so
ago I started using speech recognition with her in an attempt to
persuade her that it was sometimes her fault if people could not
understand her. We used IBM Voice Type Via Voice. I hoped to improve her
articulation and this was fairly successful but practice always followed
the same pattern. There was initial success and then the programme
started producing rubbish. After a few months of this we gave up in
despair. Nevertheless I am still convinced that speech recognition has a
lot to offer in improving articulation for people such as Sarah and,
perhaps, as the basis of a programme for teaching reading based on word
recognition.
Any comments would be gratefully received.
Leslie Duffen
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