I just bought Dragon Naturally Speaking 13 (Premium). By accident. I didn’t mean to, honest. My last post was written in Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12.5 and one thing led to another and I ended up on Nuance’s website. Here’s what I discovered: The price of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 is the same price as what I paid […]
Assistive Technology
How accurate is Dragon NaturallySpeaking in a noisy classroom?
I have a cat. I also use Dragon NaturallySpeaking. One day, my cat was meowing at me as I dictated to my computer. Really loud persistent meows. There I was, trying to talk to my computer, correct mistakes (to train Dragon), and play with my cat all at the same time. It didn’t work very […]
Digital smartpen assistive technology in the classroom
“I know my weakness at school: a laptop. I get distracted by videogames.” At least, that’s what the guy at Future Shop told me when I was looking into getting an echo smart pen. And I believe him. I see it all the time with students in my classroom who use assistive technology. The computer […]
Backing up Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 User Profile
There is nothing scarier than opening up Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 to get an error message saying there’s something wrong with your user profile. (Well, I suppose your computer not booting up is pretty scary too. Or, when your hard drive crashes and you lose all of your family photos, that sucks.) If you’ve been […]
WordQ and SpeakQ: Assistive Technology for the Classroom
Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time playing around with WordQ and SpeakQ. (Mostly because my free 30 day trial is about to expire, but also because I like playing around with voice recognition software.) WordQ is a pretty neat piece of assistive technology. It’s a third-party application that helps students to write, whether […]