You could try Dragon Dictate rather than Naturally Speaking as you pause after each word.
Work was done at Percy Hedley School many years ago by what was then Aptech with a user with "unintelligible" speech and Dragon Dictate and that was successful.
It was Les (I think his surname is Kinghorn) who did the work. If he can't be traced then Peter Kelway might know where he is.
http://www.wordsworldwide.co.uk/about/
They also worked with a combination of Dragon Dictate and EZKeys, with the user dictating first letters and the prediction software providing options for further selection. This was with a user who was trained to produce sufficiently distinct vocalizations for the system to recognize letters of the alphabet plus some control commands, but who did not have good enough speech for full recognition.
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Subject: voice recognition for people with CP
Hi
I recently met a student with cerebral palsy-related speech difficulties,
along with serious dexterity problems. Although his speech is slow and
difficult to understand at first, it is consistent. We wondered if voice
input software might be one way of him producing draft typed versions of
written work. We evaluated Dragon NaturallySpeaking but found the training
process did not seem capable of processing his slow speech patterns. He was
constantly being asked to repeat the sentence before he'd had chance to
complete it. Has anyone identified any suitable speech recognition software
capable of interpreting speech from people who have slow, slurred but
reasonably consistent speech patterns - or know of any modifications to
Dragon that might allow someone with CP-related speech problems begin to
attempt the training process?
Ian
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