With regards to your query:
> However I mentioned your question to a dyslexic student who is training
> on Power Secretary & she said that on her soft-ware, one word can access
> stored information. (this is a very honest student!)
Do you mean that the user can call up pre-set information by voice command?
If so, then this sounds like a voice macro. Macros can range from simple
text macros to quite complex inter-application macros. Each user has the
facility to add about 3,000 macros, with each text macro having the ability
to generate about 17,000 characters. This obviously should cause some
concern for exam conditions.
As to how to combat this?
If you export, or copy, the users voice profile to another system, then
their own macros would also be transferred. The only remedy I can think of
is as follows:
- create a new user
- export the dictation vocabulary
- import this vocabulary into the students vocabulary just before the
exam, thus over writing any dictation macros.
- This process would have to be repeated for all vocabularies that could
generate a text macro, e.g., word processing vocabularies.
This is obviously not an easy solution, which could become quite
time-consuming if a lot of vocabularies had to be over written. Although,
another macro could be created to execute the above process, simply
importing this macro first into the students vocabulary.
Regards
Dave Robertson
http://waves.base.org
Telephone : +44 (0)1506 495 239
Facsimile : +44 (0)1506 492 974
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> From: Dorothy Gilroy <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: exams
> Date: 31 October 1997 12:23
>
> We have a student with RSI who is doing very well using a
voice-activator.
>
> However I mentioned your question to a dyslexic student who is training
> on Power Secretary & she said that on her soft-ware, one word can access
> stored information. (this is a very honest student!)
>
> Anyone any comments?
>
> Dorothy Gilroy.
>
>
>
> At 18:06 28/10/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >I recently met with a student from Southampton University who told me
> >that he had just recently received an additional 2 hours for an exam
> >so that he could use VR software. As I recall he was studying law,
> >but those are all the details I have (sorry, I didn't really pursue
> >it...).
> >
> >One thing he did find was that there was a serious need for
> >him to take a break in the exam in order to rest his voice, and he
> >also had to have water on hand for sipping (although this is good
> >practice during dictation anyway).
> >
> >> If the student requesting this facility had built up a good voice
> >> file and was prepared to spend some time refining it to work in the
> >> new environment, I would have no problem in permitting this.
> >>
> >> > Just to complicate the matter further. Is anyone aware of a
> University that
> >> > permits students to take their examinations using voice-activated
> software?
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Matthew Dodd
> >
> >---------------------------------------------------
> >Matthew Dodd, Technician
> >Centre for Enabling & Learning Technologies
> >University of Southampton New College, Southampton, Hants
> >Mobile: 0468 903930 Tel: 01703 330100
> >Email : [log in to unmask]
> > [log in to unmask]
> >WWW: http://www.celt.lsu.soton.ac.uk/
> >
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