Dictation Solutions

[Bankesy]

Good morning

 

This could be a bit of a strange request but I wondered if anybody out there had any input regarding the best solutions for dictation.

 

In particular the school is looking to assist a student so that they may speak and directly produce a Word document.

 

Now in my experience dictation solutions work better by making an audio recording and then typing up the content later but the school are trying to avoid the student having to type for any great length of time.

 

So far my best idea was to use the microphone built in to a laptop and leverage the speech input tool which comes with Read & Write 11 but setbacks include the length of time and know how required to complete the voice recognition training as well as the difficulties of background noise in class.

 

Thank you

[RLR]

I've not had any dealings with dictation but I've heard this is a good piece of software:

 

Dragon ? world's best-selling speech recognition software | Nuance.co.uk

[witch]

We have used Dragon and once you have done the setup it is pretty good - but the setup is a complete pain in the rear, particularly as you are likely to be asking children to read out quite long passages of words.

It may have changed a bit since we bought it though