A message in response to Leslie Duffen's regarding Sarah- who sounds like a
wonderful daughter! I wonder is IBM's SpeechViewer might be a good tool as
it provides an on-screen picture of speech sounds? Just a thought...
Joan Breslin Larson
Joan.Breslin-Larson@state.mn.us <Joan.Breslin-Larson@state.mn.us>
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From: spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:23 AM
Subject: New member
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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