to be perfectly honest i have been thinking about the voice recognition
software but not sure how to go about finding more details as in costs and
where to get it from etc. i am hopeing to get an ergonomics keyboard for
home but currently am extremely skint and overdrawn so will have to wait
until i find another job now!

Caelica
----- Original Message -----
From: Christine Wilson <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: changing jobs


> Well, if a prospective employee could convince me he/she could produce
> typing work at over 160 wpm (what the best voice-recognition software
> can achieve) I think I'd be quite interested!
>
> IMHO, this is one area in which people with RSI who were once keyboard
> users have an advantage - especially if you were a keyboard user using
> all the shortcut keys rather than a mousist. We won't have it for too
> long, as people without RSI are going to want to start using it, but
> it's a foot in the door, I should think, in a lot of situations.
>
> Cannot your employment centre (PACT group perhaps?) or perhaps a typing
> employment agency, arrange a "taster" session? If you then armed
> yourself with some facts and figures from computer magazines, or perhaps
> some personal testimonials from voicerecognition users, that might be a
> way. The cost of buying the Professional version of
> DragonNaturallySpeaking is about £350 - before my employees bought it
> for me, I had bought a lower-grade version for £40 - but I did in fact
> offer to pay off the cost week by week out of my own salary. You might
> not want to do that, but it might persuade a sceptical prospective
> employer how serious you were - and if he did take you up on your offer,
> he couldn't lose, could he? Even if you left, he'd still have the
> software installed on his machine.
>
> Lots of luck!
>
>
> Caelica wrote:
> >
> > i am currently trying to find a different type of job as in not a lot of
> > typing but am having no luck, i have tried applying for other work but
no
> > one seems to want to employ me, i dont blame them though! if you had an
> > applicant with RSI and one without with both the same qualifications
which
> > one would you choose?
> >
> >
>
>
>
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