Speech Recognition for accessibility
Speech Recognition for accessibility
- Subject: Speech Recognition for accessibility
- From: Tom Bonura <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:01:21 -0700
Hello Developers,
If you have wanted to include speech recognition as part of your
accessibility solution but didn't want to deal with yet another API
(and Carbon at that), you should check out MakeItSo (http://
web.mac.com/bonura/iWeb/Make it So/MakeItSo.html)
MakeItSo allows you to build rich language models (the commands your
user will speak) and links the language models with either
AppleScripts or Cocoa methods that execute the spoken command. It
goes far beyond Apple's "Speakable Items" application (System
Preferences>Speech>Recognition).
Why speech recognition? Well, it is not only natural and expressive
but highly empowering, especially for people with visual disabilities
or fine motor control problems. Sometimes using the mouse and even
the keyboard isn't terribly easy even with VoiceOver. Apple's speech
recognition works very well, especially if the environment is
relatively quiet or if the user wears a close talking mic (i.e. a
head mounted mic) but is English only. Still, there are many who
would be delighted to use speech recognition in concert with
VoiceOver and it is integrated into Mac OS X - nothing to install or
buy.
If you are interested in using speech recognition as part of your
accessibility solution have a look at MakeItSo. If this looks like a
direction you might want to take let me know. I will soon be posting
the MakeItSo Cocoa framework and example code which will allow you to
build speech into your own Cocoa application. All it takes is 1 line
of cocoa plus the commands you create with the MakeItSo application!
It's now easy to include speech recognition in your application.
Hey, how cool is that?!
Tom Bonura
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