May 2005 NGTVoice

Service Release 1 for DNS 8
NGT's Collaboration with Renton Technical College
DNS Medical and EMR Technologies
J-Say Update
OneNote Service Pack 1
NGT Welcomes Cindi Matson to the Team

Service Release 1 for Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8

Scansoft recently announced the availability of SR1 for DNS 8. This service release is accessed using the updates feature on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking Help menu ("Check for updates"). Here's information about what fixes are available in this patch with the relevant tech-note reference from the Scansoft knowledge base:

4874: Ability to access a Memory Expansion Card when saving a recording on the Tungsten Palm Recorder.
4988: Improved formatting of lists that start with numbers 0-9.
5007: Crash should no longer appear when closing Dragon NaturallySpeaking or when Dragon NaturallySpeaking is adapting the voice files (user files). This error appeared more frequently on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 due to Advanced Text Services.
5009: The TTS (Text-to-Speech) engine for UK English is now included with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8.
5035: Improved formatting of words when dictating legal documents with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 Legal
5071: Numbers containing "0" (Spoken as, "Oh.") and decimal points should now be properly formatted. (Example: "Thirty-nine oh three point one" or "3903.1")
5072: The "Open User" dialog should now refresh after upgrading an imported user.
5073: When using the DOCTYPE declaration in HTML files, using the "Link" command should now properly number links.
5074: Crash should no longer occur when adapting the user files after performing additional training on a system with a CPU with hyper-threading support enabled.

In addition to the items listed above, the following issues have also been resolved in the service release:

Support for America Online 9 (English and German versions only).
Improved correction handling for the "Spell" dialog.
Improved handling of some custom commands run from within the MyCommands Editor that failed.
The Audio Setup Wizard should now open in the foreground when opening via the Accuracy Assistant.
Improved handling of the "Open" command in Microsoft Word 2003.
Backspacing during correction in the "Spell" dialog should now delete the proper amount of spaces.
An exception error should no longer appear when using the playback feature with some .dra files.
The word properties for question marks ("?"), exclamations ("!") and periods (".") should no longer be grayed out.
Dictation should now be disabled in custom Visual Basic Applications, like most other applications, when a button has focus.
Improved handling of empty dictation base vocabularies when using voctool.exe where all the words showed up as new words, even though most, if not all were in the backup dictionary.
"Operation cannot be completed. Card was unplugged unexpectedly" error should no longer appear during the save operation with the Palm Recorder.
Pressing the navigation buttons on the Palm Recorder should no longer cause the audio to start from the beginning again.
Improved handling of the "Location of user files:" dropdown menu where the path was not added to the dropdown but did list the users at that location and displayed the old path in the dropdown.

NGT's Collaboration with Renton Technical College

Over the last two years, NGT had the opportunity to work with a nearby technical school. We assisted with the selection and implementation of a broad range of assistive technologies to support the universal design approach to education. This work was funded in part by a DOE grant. The program manager documented the college's efforts and her information about the work and results appears on the Microsoft accessibility pages. We are honored to have had a small part in this very important work, and would welcome any comments or questions.

DNS Med and EMR Technologies

Over the last few months we've had the chance to work on a number of substantial integrations of DNS Medical 8 and several EMR products (including EPIC, Chart Connect, and IBEX). We've found that each EMR interacts differently with DNS Medical 8, but each has been relatively voice-friendly and, with the onboard dictation box, DNS is working well in each instance.

J-Say Update

As this e-newsletter is being created, the good people at T&T Consultancy are hard at work testing the latest releases of J-Say (Standard 3 and Pro 2) to provide updated interoperability with DNS 8 SR1 and JAWS 6.1. Please watch for an announcement in the next week or so about updating or, anticipate receiving information about this, and other issues, from the new J-Say discussion list that should be available shortly.

OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1

As many of you know, we've continued to push the envelope with Tablet Computing and the Microsoft applications that support this platform. Microsoft has recently posted a service pack (SP1) for OneNote, the specialty application created for handwriting capture on Tablet PCs.

NGT Welcomes Cindi Matson to the Team

We recently had a new addition to our team at NGT. With the recent departure of Dawn Draheim, our Operations Manager, we welcome Cindi Matson who has joined us as Administrative Assistant. Cindi is available Monday through Friday from 8AM to 12 noon, and can be reached at extension 14.

As always we'd like to thank you for the opportunity to continue to be of service to you and your organizations,

Edward Rosenthal, President and CEO

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