Whenever I meet someone who has been diagnosed with macular
my advice is always the same: start now to master dictation and text readers. We all think we don't need them yet. But once you do need it, it is so much harder
to learn a new technology.
Learning to use dictation it's fairly easy and allows you to
reach out to people. But if you don't
master the text reader, no one can respond. You really need to know how to use
both.
My new phone has a text reader feature which I am trying to
learn now. Unfortunately, all the instructions are in text that I can't read.
The dictation and the text reader on my old Word program were
abysmal because it was so old and outdated. I tried to buy a new Word program. Now you can't buy the program outright. You have to pay a yearly fee to use the newest version.
I figured it was a waste of money, but I was really wrong. Both dictation and the text reader on the new
word program worked beautifully and in sync. I couldn't be happier. I only wish the
narrator on Microsoft Windows 10 worked
as well. It’s so frustrating as well as
being complicated. The Word text reader
only works on Word and not on the internet. So I am still struggling for anything on the internet.
Now for the blog I use Word dictation instead of
dictation on my phone. Then I listen to it with Word text reader, and then my husband does the final editing.
This is all going more smoothly now. The only glitch is inserting pictures. Somehow
my picture file system is all messed up. I am now focusing on the picture problem. So in the end, getting the new Word program
was worth the extra money after all.