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showing comparisons of user performance with different alternate computer input methods as well as actual text and errors typed.  Reports can be e-mailed to any e-mail address - a valuable tool for teachers or employers to keep track of user work and performance.
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Typing Exercise Report

Joe James
Grade: 7
9/18/2003

Num* Date Exercise / Actual Text Typed WPM Accuracy Completion
Time (secs)
Test Setup
12 9/18/2003 4 Children - Grade level words / Grade 4 d 61 85% 37 Keyboard: Speech Recognition; 800x600 or lower res; Windows large scheme; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Dragon speech output; Dragon Naturally Speaking v7
After 4 training sessions.
    winter cover gone young table widow [window] hundred ago story even week world sometime [sometimes] city between airplane [I'm] together change without
11 9/18/2003 4 Children and Teens - Paragraphs / Simple Paragraph - 05 sentences 68 89% 79 Keyboard: Speech Recognition; 800x600 or lower res; Windows large scheme; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Dragon speech output; Dragon Naturally Speaking v7
After 4 training sessions.
    Sum people may use speech input to type ["type"] or as a text input tune. [tool.] This can be much quicker then [than] using money [any] type of keyboard. Learning how to use speech recognition requires patience and perseverence [perseverence,] but it can pay of [off] once you become proficient in it. People can get hope [up] to speeds of near 100 words per minute once they are using speech recognition programs efficiently. Most people could never type that quickly using their fingers on a keyboard.
10 9/18/2003 4 Teens - Humor / Geo Metro 16 64% 20 Keyboard: Intellikeys - Alphabet Overlay; Arm support; Keyguard; Other hardware: Standard Intellikeys keyguard for ABC layout; 800x600 or lower res; Speech output - speak letter; Speech output - speak sentence; Speech output - speak word; Windows large scheme; Abbreviation expansion: Co:Writer; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Write Out:Loud; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Intellikeys keyboard mounted at 60 degree angle on wheelchair tray. Letters accessed using index finger on left and right hands. Foam blocks under elbows bilaterally.
    How do you double the valu ofa geo [value of a Geo] Metro?
Fill it wiht [with] gas.
9 9/18/2003 4 Teens - Diversity / Poems - Let us put aside all Animosity rather embrace Diversity 24 63% 31 Keyboard: Intellikeys - Alphabet Overlay; Arm support; Keyguard; Other hardware: Standard Intellikeys keyguard for ABC layout; 800x600 or lower res; Speech output - speak letter; Speech output - speak sentence; Speech output - speak word; Windows large scheme; Abbreviation expansion: Co:Writer; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Write Out:Loud; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Intellikeys keyboard mounted at 60 degree angle on wheelchair tray. Letters accessed using index finger on left and right hands. Foam blocks under elbows bilaterally.
    fLet us put side [aside] all animsity
[Animosity;] rather embrace Diversity.
Then we can cretefor Humanity
understandig [create for Humanity: UNDERSTANDING,] PEACE and UNITY!
8 9/18/2003 4 Teens - Diversity / Poems - Let us learn to trust each other 21 62% 103 Keyboard: Intellikeys - Alphabet Overlay; Arm support; Keyguard; Other hardware: Standard Intellikeys keyguard for ABC layout; 800x600 or lower res; Speech output - speak letter; Speech output - speak sentence; Speech output - speak word; Windows large scheme; Abbreviation expansion: Co:Writer; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Write Out:Loud; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Intellikeys keyboard mounted at 60 degree angle on wheelchair tray. Letters accessed using index finger on left and right hands. Foam blocks under elbows bilaterally.
    let us
Learn to trst aech other
[trust each other,] let us care.
[Let us accept each other,] let [] us acept [accept] each other,
let uu [let us] help and sahre
[share.] Let us acnowkedge [acknowledge] that
we are athe same
[all the same;] even thogh [though] different
in color [color,] creed orname.
[or name.] Let uscommit [us commit] to unity,
by embracing diversity
[diversity.] To bring about prosperity
for all [of] humanity.
7 9/16/2003 4 Children and Teens - General Knowledge / Animals - Rhinoceros 2 19 77% 9 Keyboard: Intellikeys - Alphabet Overlay; Arm support; Keyguard; Other hardware: Standard Intellikeys keyguard for ABC layout; 800x600 or lower res; Speech output - speak letter; Speech output - speak sentence; Speech output - speak word; Windows large scheme; Abbreviation expansion: Co:Writer; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Write Out:Loud; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Intellikeys keyboard mounted at 60 degree angle on wheelchair tray. Letters accessed using index finger on left and right hands. Foam blocks under elbows bilaterally.
    The rhinouceros [rhinoceros] has very thick, sturdylegs [sturdy legs,] yet can be suprisigly [surprisingly] agile [and] quick when the he wants tor [to] run. They have a thick and [and] tough skin that looks like the arnor [armor] plating on tanks.the rihinoceros [tanks. The Rhinoceros] likes to [to] roll around in a cool mud bath. The mud on his skin helps to keep him cool and also stoppesky [stops pesky] insects from biting him.
6 9/16/2003 4 Children and Teens - General Knowledge / Animals - Rhinoceros 2 13 77% 11 Keyboard: Intellikeys - Alphabet Overlay; Arm support; Keyguard; Other hardware: Standard Intellikeys keyguard for ABC layout; 800x600 or lower res; Speech output - speak letter; Speech output - speak sentence; Speech output - speak word; Windows large scheme; Abbreviation expansion: Co:Writer; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Write Out:Loud; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Intellikeys keyboard mounted at 60 degree angle on wheelchair tray. Letters accessed using index finger on left and right hands. Foam blocks under elbows bilaterally.
    The rhinouceros [rhinoceros] has very thick, sturdylegs [sturdy legs,] yet can be suprisigly [surprisingly] agile [and] quick when the he wants tor [to] run. They have a thick and [and] tough skin that looks like the arnor [armor] plating on tanks.the rihinoceros [tanks. The Rhinoceros] likes to [to] roll around in a cool mud bath. The mud on his skin helps to keep him cool and also stoppesky [stops pesky] insects from biting him.
5 9/16/2003 4 Children and Teens - General Knowledge / Animals - Rhinoceros 2 7 77% 65 Keyboard: Intellikeys - Alphabet Overlay; Arm support; Keyguard; Other hardware: Standard Intellikeys keyguard for ABC layout; 800x600 or lower res; Speech output - speak letter; Speech output - speak sentence; Speech output - speak word; Windows large scheme; Abbreviation expansion: Co:Writer; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Write Out:Loud; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Intellikeys keyboard mounted at 60 degree angle on wheelchair tray. Letters accessed using index finger on left and right hands. Foam blocks under elbows bilaterally.
    The rhinouceros [rhinoceros] has very thick, sturdylegs [sturdy legs,] yet can be suprisigly [surprisingly] agile [and] quick when the he wants tor [to] run. They have a thick and [and] tough skin that looks like the arnor [armor] plating on tanks.the rihinoceros [tanks. The Rhinoceros] likes to [to] roll around in a cool mud bath. The mud on his skin helps to keep him cool and also stoppesky [stops pesky] insects from biting him.
4 9/16/2003 4 Children and Teens - Paragraphs / Simple Paragraph - 04 sentences 21 72% 77 Keyboard: Big Keys - QWERTY Layout; Arm support; Keyguard; 800x600 or lower res; Windows large scheme; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Arms supported with foam blocks under each elbow
    Good typing involv [involves] many more skilsthmn [skills than] just finger movment [movement] on the keyboard. To [learn] how to type well, you need tto [to] learn where thekyes [the keys] are on the keyboard. the [keyboard. The] positioning of your arms and hands, [hands] is also important. Efficent [Efficient] typing is a combinatoin [combination] of tecnique, [technique,] speed and accuracy!
3 9/15/2003 4 Children and Teens - Paragraphs / Simple Paragraph - 03 sentences 25 54% 59 Keyboard: Big Keys - QWERTY Layout; Arm support; Keyguard; 800x600 or lower res; Windows large scheme; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Arms supported with foam blocks under each elbow
    Learning toty p [to type] is very important computers [important. Computers] are common in scool adn [school and] at work. Many peple [people] have computerin [computers in] their homess [homes] too.
2 9/15/2003 4 Teens - Humor / Good news 46 87% 63 Keyboard: Speech Recognition; 800x600 or lower res; Windows large scheme; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Dragon speech output; Dragon Naturally Speaking v7
After 4 training sessions.
    College student: "Hey, Dad! I have [I've] got sum [some] great news for you!"
Father: "What, son?"
College student, [student:] "Remember that $500 you promised if I made the Dean's list?"
Father:"I [Father: "I] certainly do."
College student: "Well, you get to keep it."
1 9/15/2003 4 Children and Teens - General Knowledge / Animals - Tigers 2 15 79% 343 Keyboard: Intellikeys - Alphabet Overlay; Arm support; Keyguard; Other hardware: Standard Intellikeys keyguard for ABC layout; 800x600 or lower res; Speech output - speak letter; Speech output - speak sentence; Speech output - speak word; Windows large scheme; Abbreviation expansion: Co:Writer; Browser text size: Large / 150%; Speech output: Write Out:Loud; Word prediction: Co:Writer; Intellikeys keyboard mounted at 60 degree angle on wheelchair tray. Letters accessed using index finger on left and right hands. Foam blocks under elbows bilaterally.
    There ar [are] a few types of tigers wich [which] come from different parts [of] Russia, Asia and India. The bigges [biggest] tiger [is] the Siberian, and some of [of] the huge males can weigh over 6000lb. [600lb.] and measuer [measure] up to 130 [130"] in length, while the smallest is the sumatran [Sumatran] and the femaled [females] weigh from 165lb. and measure about 90 [90"] long. Adult tigers [Tigers] spend most of the time on their own, but after a tigress has cubs she stays with them for about 2-3 years, carin [caring for] them and techingg [teaching] them [until] they can fend for thmselves, [for themselves.]
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