How it Works »

Here’s how SSR works: First the user trains the recognizer so that it learns how you speak. This takes a little time and effort, but it makes a big difference on how well SSR can understand you! After training, the SSR will recognize over 200 common words and you can add as many words as you want by just using SSR. When you write, you type the first letter of a word and then say the word. If the SSR knows the word, it will enter it into the text for you. Words that it doesn’t know it helps you type with word prediction. The combination of speech recognition and word prediction reduces the amount of typing that you have to do by 65 - 70%, even if your speech is hard to understand.

The toolbar (illustrated above) is the complete user interface. It sits at the top of your computer screen and ensures that other applications don't get behind it. The first button on the left provides access to all of the user preferences. The SR button provides access to the speech recognition dictionary and gives you dictionary editing control. The Mic button lets you control when SSR is listening to you, and the Man (for "manual") button turns off word prediction so that you can type without help (this is useful when you type web or email addresses). The Undo button makes erasing a mistake easy.

The next 6 buttons are word prediction buttons. When you type the first letter of a word, the word prediction system updates the words in the button list based on a sophisticated language model. Then, it checks the speech recognition dictionary to see which words are the recognizer knows. For known words, the background of the button is turned green (so that you know the word should be recognized). When you say the word you want (whether it is in the list or not), SSR checks all the words it knows that begin with the first letter to see if it finds a match. If it does, it puts the word in the sentence for you. If there is no match, it does not insert a word and waits for you to use the word prediction capabilities.

SSR monitors what words it knows and whether it gets them right. It lets you know when it is time to run the speech optimization software to reduce errors.

While it is a little complicated to explain, it is easy to use. SSR comes complete with everything that you need, including a desktop microphone and our USB speech processing module.

Note: The SSR software is computationally intensive and will run best on newer models of computers. Computers that are more than a few years old will run slowly. We recommend computers have at least 2 GB of RAM.

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