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From: CSMIDHC@UCLAMVS.BITNET (Danny Hilton-Chalfen)
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Subject: Dragon Dictate
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Date: 22 Jan 91 21:24:44 GMT
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ljboyle@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Leah J. Boyle)  at Ball State asks:

" 1.) How many users can a Dragon system accommodate?
2.) Can the Dragon be installed/utilized via a mainframe/network with
    a site license?
3.) Are there Dragons currently being used in academic computer labs
    by disabled students?"

  At UCLA we have the Dragon Dictate available in a public access
setting.  Students, faculty or staff with disabilities can use Dragon
Dictate (or a range of other assistive technologies).  It's a little
early for us to tell how well Dragon will work out in the long run since
we have not had long term users.  But several people with orthopedic
disability have used it to write letters and reports.

 Dragon can only by used by one person at a time, on a stand-alone
microcomputer (must be a 386 MS-DOS machine with 6, preferably 8
megabytes of RAM).  Each user loads his/her own voice file.

Please contact me if you'd like more info.

Danny Hilton-Chalfen
UCLA Office of Academic Computing
213-206-7133 email: CSMIDHC@OAC.UCLA.EDU OR @UCLAMVS