Dragon Naturally Speaking

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 4:18 AM, Alex ARNAUD <alexarnaud at member.fsf.org>
wrote:

> On 04/03/2016 03:05 PM, Scott Blair wrote:
>
> I have a Marine buddy of mine that is going blind. He has stuff that he
>> has written that he wants to put on his computer. My first response was
>> Dragon Naturally Speaking. I checked his computer and it is running MS
>> Vista and it does not support it. I talked to him about switching to
>> Ubuntu. He is fine with that. What programs for Linux that are like
>> Dragon Naturally Speaking that are available?
>>
>>
>> I'm also a blind people and It seems that the best usable utility is the
> Gnome Orca screenreader. You could find some informations on the Internet.
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Alex ARNAUD
>

I am glad to hear from a user of Orca -- as a sighted person (not blind) I
tried Orca in Ubuntu a few years ago and I found it very easy to activate,
however the experience was not so good. I felt it had several frustrating
limitations. For example, many programs I use daily in Ubuntu don't support
it at all, and it had several outright bugs, seeming to lock up and crash.

My impression was Ubuntu included Orca to tick the "accessibility" checkbox
but maybe nobody had volunteered to test it. I'm glad maybe that has
changed!

On the other hand, the guy who does the Knoppix distro has a special
version called ADRIANE he created for his blind wife. So I presume it's
somewhat tested prior to release.
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