[Xerte] Re: XOT - Speech recognition - Keyboard short cut keys

[Peter Snowball]

I am planning to develop some simple courses to support new users of 
Dragon naturally speaking speech recognition software. The problem is 
that the Voice commands "Press Tab" , "Press Shift Tab","Press Enter", 
"Press Space Bar" fire the key board keys and allow you to navigate 
Xerte, but it is very painful to get to where you want to go if you 
simply want to advance a slide or bring up the table of contents. "Press 
Tab","Press Tab","Press Tab","Press Tab" etc

If you have the high end professional version of dragon you can say 
"Press Tab 6" or you can program  mouse position commands, assuming you 
load xerte into the same window size every time, and  say "Next Slide" 
which will  locate the mouse and click it.  However the target audience 
for the courses are novice dragon users with a typical low end version 
of Dragon so this is not really an option.  You can also use "Mouse Grid 
5,2,3  Mouse click" to position the mouse and click it, but again you 
have to be an experienced user to be able to do this.

A few XOT inbuilt shot cut keys say  "Press Control T" etc that advance 
the slide no matter where you are would help novice user with XOT. 
Others eg: go to first Tab Item on the slide would also make a big 
difference.

Understand that there may be possible conflicts with windows mac etc pre 
defined short cut keys  but the question is can this and should this be 
done easily in XOT to assist disability users who use speech 
recognition.( including built in Win7 speech recognition)

Peter Snowball
Dept Of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources
Tasmania


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