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voice recognition forblind person

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A new employer wants me to hook up a employee who is blind with a new
mac which I have touted. Any one with suggestions on some soft ware to get this hooked up or do I need to hit an Apple retailer.....Rather do it here.
Thanks

Tim
 
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its built in, all you need is a mic, internal/external depending on the mac, click apple menu>system preferences>speech>speech recognition tab>set it all up there. just make sure that in sosund prefs, you select that mic as an input device. theres also Viavoice , which is very useful.
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Tiger will supposedly have much improved "spoken interface" features designed specifically for blind users.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/voiceover.html

I'd suggest you try that out whenever Panther ships.

10.3 Has a limited text-reading capability (In the Speech pane of System Preferences, under the Spoken Interface tab) and keyboard navigation (In the Universal Access and Keyboard panes.)
 

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