Home computer workstation with laptop

Computer control alternatives for persons with extensive disabilities

Description
A laptop that can be controlled using either VoiceXpress or with a head mouse and screen keyboard Key Vit.

VoiceXpress:
VoiceXpress is a dictation program that uses voice commands to control all the most common computer applications. The computer understands (after training) what you say and translates it into letters and numbers.
The more you use the program, the greater the accuracy and users can quickly achieve 96 percent voice recognition accuracy. The program can also read text aloud.
Headset with microphone included.

Head mouse:
The transmitter is a small self-adhesive reflector that the user applies to her computer glasses. The receiver sits on top of the screen. The receiver reads the movements of the reflector and moves the mouse cursor in the same way. The mouse clicks with an automatic click.

Head mouse model: Head mouse Extreme from Rehab Center

Screen keyboard KeyVit:
KeyVit is a screen keyboard that can completely replace the regular keyboard. The user controls it with the head mouse. KeyVit also has a word prediction function.

Authors comments
The user uses VoiceXpress when she writes long documents. She uses the head mouse with KeyVit for shorter documents and to correct what she has written with VoiceXpress.
The user is extremely satisfied with her computer. In the past she had Dragon Dictate, another voice recognition program. She feels that VoiceXpress is much simpler and better.

She needs help with turning on the computer and with putting on the headset for the VoiceXpress microphone.

Purchased from
for example Amazon, www.amazon.co.uk/ (VoiceXpress); Origin Instruments, www.orin.com (Head mouse and KeyVit), last checked March 2011.

Paid for by
County Council

Editors comments
You can download other virtual keybords, for example 'OnScreenKeys', see www.tomweber-software.com/products/onscreenkeys/ (last checked Febr. 2011)

www.voxit.se is now selling wireless microphones for VoiceXpress (last checked March 2011).

Another possibility is to use a desktop microphone, for example Logitech Desktop Microphone which has an USB-connection, see also www.logitech.com/en-us (last checked Feb 2011).

Tip is dated from 2008

Categories for this tip
communication » use of computer, housing » study/office, Tips and tricks from people with High tetraplegia without function in arms and hands (C2-4, ASIA A, B).

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