Voice input and control

Make all functionality available via voice control.

Please note that these products are not necessarily endorsed by RtF, but represent the range of available options.

Open Source and free

These products are free and their source code may be modified with few restrictions.

• Speech Dasher(link is external) – U. of Cambridge
• SUITEKeys(link is external) – College of Charleston, U. of Louisiana – Lafayette
• Speech-to-Text plugin(link is external) - Wordpress.org
• Voice-to-Text Chrome Extension(link is external) - SpeechTexter.com

Free, not necessarily open source

These products are free to use, but may have strict restrictions on viewing and modifying source code.

• e-Speaking(link is external) – e-Speaking
• Windows Speech Recognition(link is external) – Microsoft
• Speechnotes(link is external) - SpeechLogger and TTS Reader
• Dictation.io(link is external) - Digital Inspiration

Commercial, with free trial

These products are free to try for a limited period of time or with limited functionality. They must be purchased for full functionality.

• Dictation 2005 & Wave to Text(link is external) – Research Labs, Inc
• Speak to Me / Voice Recognition(link is external) – RJ Cooper

Commercial, no free trial

These products must be purchased to be used, and did not offer free trials at the time of posting.

• Adept1(link is external) – Amazability
• Dragon Naturally Speaking (link is external)– Nuance
• iCommunicator(link is external) – PPR
• J-Say(link is external) – Hartgen Consultancy
• MacSpeech Dictate(link is external) – MacSpeech
• NetEcho(link is external) – Internet Speech
• ViaVoice(link is external) – IBM
• VOCALPC(link is external) – AIDA

• Mixed-initiative dialog management for speech-based interaction with graphical user interfaces(link is external) – Löhr, A. and Brügge, B. (2008)
• A browser for a public-domain SpeechWeb(link is external) – University of Windsor – Frost, R.A., Ma, X., and Shi, Y. (2007)
• The vocal joystick:: evaluation of voice-based cursor control techniques(link is external) – University of Washington – Harada, S., Landay, J.A., Malkin, J., Li, X., and Bilmes, J.A. (2006)
• Support for input adaptability in the ICON toolkit(link is external) – Dragicevic, P. and Fekete, J. (2004)
• Web engineering meets natural language processing: a vocal interface generation practice(link is external) – Cidade Universitária, Brazil – Macedo, H., Robin, J., and Barros, R. (2005)
• CMU Sphinx Group Open Source Speech Recognition Engines(link is external) – Carnegie Mellon
• Wireless technologies and accessibility for people with disabilities: Findings from a policy research instrument(link is external)- Baker, Paul and Moon, Nathan W.(2010)
• Providing new access to the general curriculum: Universal design for learning(link is external)- Hitchcock, Chuck ; Meyer, Anne ; Rose, David ; Jackson, Richard
• Universal processing system and methods for production of outputs accessible by people with disabilities(link is external)-Said, Joseph P. and Schleppenback, David A.
• Using automatic speech recognition to enhance education for all students: Turning a vision into reality(link is external)- Mike Wald(2005)
• Handheld device having speech-to text conversion functionality(link is external)- Richard Nelson
• Design for older and disabled people–where do we go from here?(link is external)- Newell, A.F and Gregor, P.
• Speech recognition and synthesis tool: assistive technology for physically disabled persons(link is external)- Sharma, F. Reena and Wasson, S. Geetanjali(2012)
• Composing via dictation and speech recognition systems: Compensatory technology for students with learning disabilities(link is external)- Susan De La Paz(1999)