Category: New Software
Articles about newly available third-party software, or software which hasn’t previously been reviewed on ATMac. This doesn’t include software which comes as part of OS X such as the Finder, for example.
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Speech-to-Text: Dictation software for Mac OS X
An overview of the types of speech-to-text software that are available for Mac OS X. Speech-to-text software, sometimes known as dictation software, lets you talk to the computer and have the computer react appropriately.
Accessibility For Lion
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was released today. For the first time it’s available via download instead of on DVD and comes with international voices for speech synthesis users. There’s also multi-touch gestures, auto save, and a bunch of other updates relevant to accessibility.
HippoRemote Replaces Your Keyboard, Mouse, and Remote Control
HippoRemote will connect to your computer and hand the reins over to you. Your iPhone is now a fully-featured multi-touch trackpad. Tap the keyboard button at the top of the screen and HippoRemote will provide you with a standard iPhone keyboard with some extra features attached. Explore further, and you will see that HippoRemote turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into an advanced media browser that lets you interact with some of the coolest media programs on your Mac
ShoutOUT Speech To Text Messaging For iOS
ShoutOUT is a messaging application for text messages (SMSs), and Facebook and Twitter updates. It allows typed messages to be entered for free, messages using speech-to-text are charged for via in-app purchases beginning at 50 voice credits for US$1.99.
ReadHear DAISY Talking Book Player
This DAISY player includes text highlighting, not currently available in the free Olearia player and also reads more formats than Olearia can. The new features come at a steep price though.
OneThingToday: Focus On What’s Important
OneThingToday looks like a great task manager to help you focus on what’s important today. Once you’ve used the calendar view to input your tasks, switch to the “Today” view to get a single box (optionally transparent) which floats on top of your workspace, constantly reminding you of what you’re working on.
Free PDF To Word Converter For OS X
A PDF to Word converter will only work on text-based PDFs, not image-based ones, but it’s very useful if there is a PDF that you need to convert back to a document format so you can edit it.
Digit-Eyes uses iPhone + Printer to label things
Digit-Eyes uses your printer to print barcode labels which you can then associate with text or audio recordings. To read the labels back, you photograph the labels with your iPhone camera and then the iPhone will read the text or replay the audio for you.
iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch AAC Apps Rundown
Jane Farrall has constructed a great table listing all the important features about all the known assistive/adaptive communication (AAC) applications for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. She’s actively updating the table in response to feedback, this is a great resource for those looking for information about AAC out there.
WWDC '10 Announcements: Accessibility Implications
So the WWDC for 2010 is a bit behind us now, there’s time to take a breath and think of the accessibility implications of the things that were announced at the conference and since then. The iPhone 4, iOS 4, Safari 5, and new Mac Minis are just some of the announcements and releases.
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