Can a person with speaking difficulties or a strong accent use speech recognition?
A. Provided that the user speaks reasonably consistently and smoothly and has enrolled on Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Vista’s voice recognition system carefully, good results can be obtained. In the case of dysarthric speech it is harder to estimate the likely success of the outset. Slurred speech is easier to cater for than broken speech, where there is a pause within the word. A stutter can be coped with but this often presents a problem. Where DNS fails to cater for speech problems, DragonDictate should be tried. In many cases those with quite severely dysarthric speech and bad stuttering can succeed in using ScreenSpeaker with DragonDictate. Those who experience difficulties because they are novice users, are not using their native language or who have a strong regional accent may benefit from the use of KeyStone SpeechTutor.
