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Hello Michael,
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 5:53:47 PM, you wrote:
MT> In a message dated 28/09/03 14:40:12 GMT Daylight Time,
MT> [log in to unmask] writes:
MT> << A student was hoping to use his laptop and Jaws to type notes live in
MT> lectures - he has good touch typing skills and does not want to have to
MT> record lectures and type up notes afterwards. However as laptops have become
MT> heavier and less portable, he is finding his new one too heavy to bring to
MT> college on public transport and carry it around every day. There are
MT> desktop PCs with Jaws that he can use on campus, and we would be happy to
MT> lend him an Alphasmart or equivalent if voice synthesis could be added. >>
MT> I don't think you can add any such thing to an Alphasmart.
I don't even known what an Alphasmart is, but if it is a standard
notetaker system then it probably doesn't have speech feedback.
MT> Is that really practical - voice feedback in a lecture?
I don't think so, but others have done it very successfully with
headphones - or a headphone in one ear to be more precise. You can
go the notetaker route, or if the student knows braille, they can
use a speech notetaker which has a braille display which was the
route I went down. They are quite expensive though, but are quite
light (I took mine on the busses when going to uni), and last a long
time on standard batteries. You can turn the speech off also so
that you just feel the braille cells in a lecture. The two products
you can get now are the Braillenote <www.braillenote.com> or the
Pacmate <www.freedomscientific.com>. Its probably not worth going
over these products in detail on this list.
Hope this helps,
Andrew.
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Best regards,
Andrew Hodgson, Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
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