It’s all voice. Voice dictation on the iPad, mostly. Dragon on the laptop occasionally. I can use a knuckle tap on the iPad for some things. Hey Siri to launch stuff. (My iPad is always plugged in.) Like most quads, I also use a switch device.
This Wall St Journal video shows how a person without functional hands uses a touchscreen.
http://tinyurl.com/nd6vxa3
Voice is the reason my posts tend to be longer than most people’s, but in short paragraphs. That’s a typical dictation style.
As far as voice command of devices goes, much discussion here:
Hey everyone,
I am sure many of you have heard of Ivee (helloivee.com ). I personally don’t own one, but it did make me do some thinking. For them to achieve integration with SmartThings, it would appear they have to communicate with the SmartThings cloud. Is this correct? Have we heard of any way to do this officially as of yet?
Here is where I am going with this…: My dream would be to put 5+ Raspberry Pi’s in my house, with a good bi-directional mic, and a wifi dongle. Toss on a simple “always listening app” and basically build a voice recognition app using one of the many cloud-based voice recognition api’s.
I look at the products like Ivee, and in some ways I feel that they are too ambitious with trying to integrate into 100 solutions, they are trying to do too much with having a pr…
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