![]() ![]() ![]() SRS is now being very successfully used by many people with dyslexia. However, this means that if recognition is consistently poor there is nothing the user can do to improve performance. Like the free Dragon app, this requires no training of the software to recognise your voice. When this is tapped, you can dictate text. Then a key on the on-screen keyboard has a microphone on it. IPads (3 or later) now have built-in speech recognition. Conversion to text is done remotely online and there are time limits to any one piece of dictation. There are free app versions of Dragon, called Dragon Dictation for use on tablets and smart phones. There is an entirely different program for use on Apple computers, despite the similarity in name, called Dragon Dictate. For dyslexic users, Dragon NaturallySpeaking is currently much the most user friendly. The main commercial program is Dragon NaturallySpeaking for use on PCs. Read & Write Gold has a link to the free Microsoft SRS. A commercial programme, SpeakQ, has been developed using this version, and is designed to assist poor readers through the training process. There is a free version built-in to Windows Vista, 7 and 8, which can be found in the Ease of Access Centre. All of them require careful voice training by the user. There are several versions of SRS available. It has had a mixed reputation, partly due to its availability in the early stages of development and partly due to successful use being dependent on the user’s willingness to learn how it is best used and persist through any initial frustrations. SRS has been around for over 20 years now.
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