New for 2011! Some people are unable to use off-the-shelf speech recognition software because their speech or breathing isn’t typical. InvoTek’s award winning Supplemented Speech Recognition (SSR) product is different. It is specifically designed for people who cannot use other systems! Years of research went into this product (with funding from the National Institutes of Health) to ensure that it works well for people with speech that is dysarthric (i.e., difficult to understand). SSR tightly integrates word prediction and speech recognition to significantly reduce the amount of typing required to enter text. Our research demonstrated that, even for people with very poor speech, typing requirements were reduced by 65% or more.

The video above demonstrates an earlier version of SR than the product release, but the idea is the same (the toolbar you receive will be more polished). Thanks to Katie and Susan Fager, Ph.D. for the video footage and narration.