Peter.Brown@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Peter Brown) (01/23/91)
Index Number: 13150
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can anyone give me any hints on using quatro pro with softvert 4.5 and
the dectalk in my kpr. i also need to know if there is any way of
using msword with speech. the good local resources are telling me no
but i am still searching. yes, you guess right my employer says they
will start using this software soon. the option is using word perfect
and translating to msword which is what i guess i will end up using. i
am still trying to convince the powers there to use word perfect but
that has not worked so far.
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Internet: Peter.Brown@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.orgCarla.Campbell@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Carla Campbell) (01/23/91)
Index Number: 13177
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
PB> any way of using msword with speech. the good local resources
PB> are telling me no but i am still searching.
Peter-- here's the poop as I know it-- and as a Word user, I make it a
point to find out about MS Word compatibility when I start looking at a
screen reader. <grin>
Soft Vert does not now work with MS Word-- but it's being worked on.
Flipper works with MS Word completely in light bar mode, reading the menus
and the spell checker with minimul set-up.
Vocal Eyes almost works with MS Word-- the way the light bar mode works
prevents it from working exactly as you would wish in the menus and spell
checker, etc. It will, however, read the right lines when you do 'read
current line', and so forth, so it is useable, if not friendly with V E as
far as I can tell from my examination of the demo copy. (if anyone has
thought of a way of making these things work properly with Vocal-Eyes, I'd
be interested to hear about it-- I couldn't think of one since when in
spell checker and in the menus, Word switches to a soft cursor while
leaving the 'real' cursor on the screen at the misspelled word. Therefore,
when you 'read current line', say, when doing a correction, you always get
the line where the 'real' cursor is, rather than where your prompt and the
soft cursor are waiting for input. With Flipper's light bar mode, you are
automatically switched to reading the line where the soft cursor is as the
'current line' as long as there is one on the screen, after which it will
switch back to the regular cursor without having to tell it to. Clear as
mud?)
--Carla
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