Input Technologies or

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Input Technologies or DigiTools Revolution
What it all means www.SpeakingSolutions.com
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Favorite Verbal Bloopers

• Apocryphal 1940s or 1950s, IBM Executive, Only
  1/2 dozen computers will be needed to handle all
  the processing needs for the entire world.
• Real 1980s, District Technology Committee, The
  IBM PC isnt a real computer.
• Real Early 1990s A computer teacher vetoed our
  first Windows lab, "DOS will never go away. No
  self-respecting professional would ever wish to
  take her hands off the keyboard to use a mouse!

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Favorite Verbal Bloopers

• 1994, District Tech Coordinator,
  Only administrators need e-mail."
• Early 1990s, WordPerfect Marketing Manager,
  The Microsoft Office Suite is no threat to
  WordPerfect."
• Mid-1990s, Novell Executive, Why should we worry
  about the Internet? We have 40 million users and
  they only have 10 million users.

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Favorite Verbal Bloopers

• Mid-1990s, Web education enthusiasts, Internet
  distance education and online courses will
  replace most general education classes in
  college.
• Mid-1990s, Net Geeks, Online shopping will
  eclipse shopping at brick mortar stores like
  Wal-Mart .

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Michael Dell
Bill Gates
One of these men was guilty of a blooper . . . at
Comdex 2001
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Whats the Fuss?
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Bill Gates -- Comdex 2001 in November The Tablet
takes cutting-edge PC technology and makes it
available wherever you want it, which is why I'm
already using a Tablet as my everyday computer.
It's a PC that is virtually without limits -- and
within five (now 4) years I predict it will be
the most popular form of PC sold in America."
(Bill Gates Keynote Speech, Comdex 2001,
downloaded from HTTP//www.microsoft.com/presspass
/press/2001/.
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Michael Dell -- Comdex 2001 in November COMDEX
is a great time to remind us of all the wonderful
technologies that are in search of a problem, and
unfortunately, not all of those will actually be
demanded by customers." crash and burn (Dell,
Comdex 2001, downloaded from HTTP//www.eweek.com/
article2/0,3959,6158.00.asp)
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Computers Must Change
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Computers Must Change
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Computers Must Change
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Computers Must Change
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New Tablets Fall of 2002
Compaq
Tatung
Fujitsu
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• Microsoft Windows Professional XP
• Tablet PC Edition
• Microsoft Office XP
• Speech and handwriting recognition built in
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking or IBM ViaVoice

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• Bill Gates -- Continued
• "The kind of devices we'll be working against,
  the user interface ... will be fundamentally
  different than it is today. People will look back
  and say,
• 'Wow! Why did I buy a PC that was big and I
  couldn't take it to a meeting and I couldn't talk
  to it? What was that all about?'"
• July 3, 2000 (US News and World Report)

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Whats the Fuss?
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Whats the Fuss?
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Whats the Fuss?
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Whats the Fuss?
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Whats the Fuss?
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Whats the Fuss?
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Implication 1Smash the Desktop and Laptop
Markets in 4 years
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Implication 2Speech Will Reduce Certain
Injuries

• 10.5 Carpal
• 25-33 RSI
• 600,000 per year

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• Bill Gates -- Continued . . .
• Im a great believer in voice-recognition
  software the state of the art is advancing, and
  . . . you may want to talk to your computer as
  much as you type-or more. January 12, 1999

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Implication 3New Computer Literacy Skills

• Pronunciation Enunciation
• Reading Aloud Clearly
• Penmanship

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The Holy Grail of Computer Input
1950s
1960s
1970s
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Implication 4Rapid Decline of Keyboarding
Instruction 2004-2006

• Speech 110-160 wpm _at_ 95 and above 2-6 hours
• Handwriting 20-30 wpm 1 hour

by 2006
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Bill Gates May 2002 the keyboard is a
limiting factor and so the idea -- is to have a
computer that instead of having the keyboard is
more like just, say, a tablet of paper." (Bill
Gates Speech to Technology Alliance Summit, May
17, 2002, downloaded from http//www.microsoft.com
/ billgates/speeches/2002/05-17techalliance.asp.)
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Another Verbal Blooper?

• Keyboarding instruction will be dead by the end
  of the decade for regular education students.
  This will impact k-12 and college students. On
  the job, typing will he reduced to a very narrow
  segment of the job market Could be an 80-90
  reduction in typing from current levels by2009.
• Karl Barksdale, Closing the Gap, 2002

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Future of Keyboard ?

• 2000, District Special Needs Services Director,
  The day is coming soon when the keyboard will
  become an accommodation for those who cant write
  or cant speak.

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Input Technologies

• NBEAs National IT Standards admonish students
  to, Use a variety of input technologies and
• "Develop proper input techniques (e.g.,
  keyboarding, scanning, speech recognition,
  handwriting recognition, and the use of a touch
  screen or mouse), including safety methods to
  avoid repetitive strain injury."
• (Page 85, National Standards for Business
  Education, www.nbea.org, ISBN 0-933964-56-0)

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• Washington State
• DigiTools Curricular approach to input
  technologies revolution.
• Career and Technical Education Website "The New
  Curriculum Suggestions for Digital Communication
  Tools (working towards replacement of the CTE
  Keyboarding Curriculum)
• Speech Recognition
• Handwriting Recognition
• Machine Translation
• Net/Web applications
• Word processing and Office" relative to new
  input technologies
• Real, project-based curriculum, aligned with high
  academic standards
• www.digitalcommunicationtools.com

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Reaching Everyone
How do we . . . Train 250,000 computer
education instructors, 8 million teachers and
support staff, and 80 million students in speech
handwriting recognition in less than eight
years? NBEA 2000 Anaheim, California Train
the Trainers in Business Education
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Last Millennium
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Business Education Trainer of Trainers 2000
316 Business Education Trainers in 11 States
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Business Education Trainer of Trainers 2001
1,550 Trainers in 38 States
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Business Education Trainer of Trainers 2002
4,000 5,000 Trainers of Trainers
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Growth Projections
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Input Technologies

• In the past two years the debate has shifted from
  Should we teach SR HR? to more urgent
  questions
• What tools do we need?
• Whats the new scope and sequence?
• How do we integrate new input technologies into
  our courses?

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Implication 5Prepare for Workplace

• 100 CEOs
• Motorola Plantronics, ATT, Chevron, DOJ,
  KodakNortel, Teleco, Vodavi
• Medical, Legal, Public Safety, All Businesses

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The Scope ofRapid Change

• This will be in everything before long. (IBM
  Employee, 1997)
• The Technology Always Wins like a ratchet that
  only turns one way.
• Size and form factors of computers are changing.
  Tablet computers with touch screens or stylus
  combined with speech will make keyboards
  optional. Palm-sized speech computers will be
  popular.

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Software Comparisons
IBM ViaVoice 9 PC Mac Enhanced or OS X
LH Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6
Microsoft Office XP Speech Recognition
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Fifteen Strategies www.SpeakingSolutions.com
/resourcesHelping Slow Readers and ESL Students
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Strategy 1 Pen Use

• How to hold the pen
• Dont press hard!

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Strategy 2 Where the Eyes Look

• Watch the screen on the Graphire 2
• Watch the digital pointer on Tablet PC

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Strategy 3 Hand-eye Coordination

• Play Games

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Strategy 4 Two-line Writing
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Strategy 5 Train Parents with the Kids

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Strategy 7 Pre-read Training Stories

• Have students pre-read the enrollment stories.
• Students take the stories home and practice
  reading the scripts aloud under parental
  supervision several days before they do their
  enrollment training.

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Strategy 8 Model Reading

• Model how to speak clearly and continuously to a
  computer. Read the enrollment script pages aloud
  together in small reading groups before the
  students train their computers.
• Read a single sentence or phrases first, and then
  allow them to read the same text back. Make
  corrections in their individual pronunciation at
  this time.

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Strategy 8 Whisper Coach

• During training, whisper phrases and sentences in
  a student's ear to help them say the words. This
  works very well and we do it all the time.
  Emphasize enunciation skills.
• Avoid single words. Speech recognition is more
  accurate when speakers use phrases and complete
  sentences.

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Strategy 9 Use Trained Aids

• I ask reading assistants, sometimes volunteer
  aides and college students, to work one-on-one
  with the students as they work through the
  training.
• Of course, it's necessary to train the assistants
  in the software too, so they understand what
  they're trying to accomplish with our poor
  readers.

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Strategy 10 Read! Read! Read!

• Have each poor reader read more enrollment
  stories, about one every few days, simply to
  practice their reading. Their speech accuracy
  usually improves as well, so this practice is
  very effective.
• Have them read the Stories for Children in the
  second training.

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Strategy 11 Print and Track

• Walk check of skills
• Print work daily in order to track progress on
  given words, sentences, and phrases.
• Nifty Fifty curriculum or any of the books at
  www.SpeakingSolutions.com/books

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Strategy 12 Speak Up With Confidence

• Teach students to speak up with confidence. At
  first, the number one issue is confidence. Most
  ESL students are naturally shy about speaking
  English. However, as soon as they learn that
  other students are busy talking to their
  computers too (and aren't really listening to
  them) they loosen up and begin speaking up. We
  tell them to "shake the walls" of their cubicles.
  

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Strategy 13 Emphasize Enunciation

• Emphasize enunciation for the first few days.
  Short sentences and paragraphs work best. We have
  students say each sentence up to three times,
  trying to make improvements through pronunciation
  first, before they begin correcting errors and
  training mispronunciations.

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Strategy 14 Retrain After Speaking Voice is
Achieved

• If a student makes progress with enunciation,
  have them retrain their computers under the new
  name. Start over using their newly acquired
  dictation voice. Chance to do some additional
  reading aloud over familiar material. Helps build
  reading and speaking confidence.
• A student once took 6, 45 min. class periods,
  with coaching, to read the first training script.
  Three weeks later, he read the same script in
  under 20 minutes without assistance.

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Strategy 15 Adapt the Nifty Fifty

• Word format on CD (PDF HTML)
• Delete the intro materials meant for teacher.
• Save 20-30 in your printing.

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Speech Recognition2. Whats the Future of
Speech Handwriting? ContinuedFor more
information, visitwww.SpeakingSolutions.com
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Breaking Down Barriers

• Peter Cochrane -- Head of BT Labs June 99
• Over 80 of the people in most countries are
  limited in their participation with computers by
  the QWERTY keyboard and the mouse. A speech
  interface will open computers up to everyone.

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• Bill Gates -- Microsoft Corporation
• The technology will combine speech recognition
  and natural language understanding, so that the
  computer can determine your intent
• Your TV and PC will include a camera so they can
  recognize gestures and facial expressions. They
  will be able to tell if you are talking to the
  device or someone elseand determine your
  emotional reaction.

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• Bill Gates -- Continued . . .
• Computers that see, listen, and learn will
  extend technology into many new areas where the
  keyboard or mouse interface make interaction
  impractical.
• Business _at_ the Speed of Thought, 1999
• youll operate your PC by talking to it
  everything I described is already possible.

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• Bill Gates Microsoft.NET XP
• If Gates's vision becomes a reality,
• .NET XP will incorporate just about every neat
  new technology Microsoft's research arm is
  exploring, including speech recognition, natural
  language processing, and handwriting
  recognition.
• July 3, 2000 (US News and World Report)

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"When you get the small form factor device, the
idea of having speech recognition, fits right
into that because it's not as easy to type on a
small device. Bill Gates, July 3, 2000 (US News
and World Report) "The day is coming when every
object big enough to hold a chip actually has
one. We'd better be able to talk to these objects
because very few of them will have room for a
keyboard. M. Mitchell Waldrop, January, 2001
(Technology Review )
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The Scope ofRapid Change
Machine Translation (MT)
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Breaking Down Barriers

• Peter Cochrane -- Head of BT Labs June 99
• What are the hot emerging technologies of the
  next two years?
• AI merging with speech technology. Speech will
  appear in numerous devices.

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Reaching Critical Mass

• Its out of control. (IBM Employee, 2000)
• 1 million copies of ViaVoice sold in 1997.
• 50,000 copies per week for Macintosh in December
  1999
• Internet and telephony integration
• Wireless Web services and Voice Portals
• Medical is moving toward it

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PC MagazineEditors Choice

• Snippets from the review read, ScanSoft's Dragon
  NaturallySpeaking ...continues to offer expanded
  correction options and guides for improving
  accuracy. It continues
• "We experienced about 94 percent accuracy after
  the initial 5-minute training accuracy rose to
  around 99 percent after only two hours, a second
  training session, and running the acoustic
  optimizer."
• (Retrieved March http//www.pcmag.com click
  Reviews SoftwareSpeech Recognition.)

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PC MagazineFour Stars

• IBM ViaVoice's Pro USB 9 received a superb review
  as well. "ViaVoice pro is a great choice for
  executives or any two-fingered typists who want
  affordable, fast, accurate dictation." It
  continues
• IBM is now shipping a Plantronics USB/DSP-300
  headset with this high-end Pro version which
  lists for 229.95 We found the high-end
  Plantronics stereo microphone extremely
  responsive. It's the best mike we've seen
  included with a speech recognition product.
• (Retrieved March http//www.pcmag.com click
  Reviews SoftwareSpeech Recognition.)

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PC Magazine

• Reviews are often harsh for Office XP Speech.
  Fine for exploratory classes, helps with injury
  prevention. I feel Im back in 1997 . . .
  (www.speakingsolutions.com/news)
• "We had similar initial results with Microsoft
  Office XP, but accuracy increased more slowly and
  remained at about 90 to 95 percent because of the
  lack of correction options."
• (Retrieved March http//www.pcmag.com click
  Reviews SoftwareSpeech Recognition.)

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• Installation
• Language bar
• Multiple Users

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• Dictation OR Commands
• Dictation Accuracy
• Selecting, Editing Formatting
• Error Correction

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Noise-cancellationHeadsets

• Plantronics
• Andrea
• Telex
• VXI
• LabTech

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Headsets

• Microsoft IBM Recommend
• Sound Card Headset
• Plantronics SR1
• Plantronics .40 .50
• Plantronics USB
• DSP-100, 300, 400, 500
• Drawing at Speaking Solutions booth!

www.speakingsolutions.com
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• Handwriting Recognition in Office XP!
• Microsoft buys best technology called
  Calligrapher adds to its own 10 years of
  research
• Very cool!

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• On-screen or artist tablet
• Cintiq!
• Wacom Graphire2

Speaking Solutions Booth 63 www.handwritingsolut
ions.com
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SpeakingSolutions.Com
Mission Statement Speaking Solutions is committed
to greatly reducing work-related cumulative
trauma disorders (such as carpal tunnel syndrome
and repetitive strain injuries) caused by the
keyboard and the mouse while increasing
productivity through the use of continuous speech
recognition (CSR or Voice-Typing) software
solutions.
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SpeakingSolutions.Com

• The Five Goals
• Reduce keystrokes and mouse clicks among healthy
  computer users by 50 in 5 years while improving
  their overall productivity.
• Reduce keystrokes and mouse clicks among WMSD
  sufferers by 95 in 5 years while improving their
  productivity.

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SpeakingSolutions.Com

• The Five Goals Continued . . .
• Encourage continuous speech recognition (CSR)
  instruction into every K -12 school and college
  by 2005.
• Establish CSR Trainer of Trainers programs in
  every state and province.
• Assist corporate Human Resource departments as
  they implement much needed CSR training
  on-the-job.

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The Big Three
IBM ViaVoice Millennium
Microsoft Office XP
LH Dragon NaturallySpeaking Version 6