Does Your Disability Limit Your Ability to Type?
Previously, I have talked about Dragon Naturally Speaking and how it can be a breakthrough for people who are limited in their online journaling. There are many gifted voices that are silenced or very limited as far as the internet is concerned because of physical impairment. Paralysis of the upper body or severe carpal tunnel may inhibit someone from typing or typing effectively. Varying degrees of visual impairment also causes a barrier. Dragon Blogger is a tool, that with the use of a microphone, can have someone blogging as fast as or faster than they could type depending on the speed of your speech.
There is a special coupon code that will give you ten to twenty five percent off the purchase of the software. This is an after Christmas special and expires December 31st. It is the perfect thing to buy while you may have extra days off during the holidays, or keep a New Year’s resolution. In addition, the purchase will be eligible for a 2008 tax write off if you happen to be using it for your business.
I am excited to see that there is not only a Standard and Preferred Version, but also a version for MacIntosh! Software makers are getting better at concurrently developing a Mac counterpart of their software, thank goodness. I can’t wait to try it. There are a few people I know that like to multitask or have an impairment that makes typing difficult and I would like to see them try it. Just a note: you will need a noise cancelling microphone. Those are easy to obtain online or from your favorite electronics store.
Now that I think about it, John McCain got a lot of flack for not using email. It wasn’t because he was behind the times, but because of the lack of range of motion in his arm that makes it uncomfortable and not possible to really be effective on the keyboard with two hands. Maybe if his staff discovered Dragon Blogger, he would have been blogging from the road and would have come across to people as more cutting edge!
- $50 Coupon Code- DNSMSBG -Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred
- $25 Coupon Code- DNSMSBG -Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Standard
- $25 Coupon Code- DNSMSBG -MacSpeech Dictate
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December 25th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
For those who use Mac computers, may I recommend MacSpeech Dictate. It’s less than a year old so the program’s not as mature of feature-full as Dragon is, but it uses the same engine for speech recognition so the recognition level is top notch. I have written about it several times on my ATMac blog about disability & Mac/Apple users.
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