Answers.Body: <p>There is a website dedicated to playing chess by voice command:
  <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/chesswithvoice/" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/chesswithvoice/</a></p>
  
  <p>I didn't check it but apparently it gives instructions on using the Interfaces Arena or Fritz using voice command. </p>
  
  <p>Maybe you'll find some interesting possibilities there. </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Based on your title your question is not clear with regard to voice command for the blind. But Braille chess has been available for years. There are a number of groups specifically for this. <a href="http://www.iol.ie/~vics/bcai/" rel="nofollow">The Braille Chess Association of Ireland</a></p>
  
  <p>I am sure there are many US based as well.</p>
  
  <p>The chess.com web site has a good article about the history of Blind Chess...
  <a href="http://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/blind-ambition" rel="nofollow">history of blind chess playing</a></p>
  
  <p>I am sure there is further info on their site about software.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I thought the question was pretty clearly about blindfold chess.
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Answers.Text: I'd be okay with 1 link to a specific program as an answer. I.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(OS_X). I read through those two articles and neither of them mention any computer program (only a random Irish dude and some OTB blind chess procedures).
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Answers.Text: You must have missed the MANY links embedded throughout the article about software, here are a few...http://www.arkangles.com/kchess/blind.html   there are two links here   http://www.arkangles.com/kchess/advance.html  and another... https://sites.google.com/a/aicfb.in/aicfb/talk-64
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Answers.Text: I think this is the Windows 7 version....http://k-chess-elite.en.softonic.com/?ab=0
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Answers.Text: Ok not MANY links, but there were a few.
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Answers.Text: It doesn't matter how many links there are. None of them work. AICFB looked very promising but the download is broken, and the other programs you listed don't have speech-to-move functionality.
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Answers.Text: Its not broken I just downloaded it. Try this link.http://k-chess-elite.en.softonic.com/download#downloading look for the green bar at the top that says "if your download does not start click here"  I don't why you don't think they work, I was able to access all of them. good luck, I hope that helps.
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Answers.Body: <p>Nimzo Guernica 2.2.1, an old DOS program published in 1993, had extensions for physically blind people including voice output. But I have no idea if it is operable on today's hardware and I assume it lacked speech recognition. But as you can train keyboard commands to a speech recognition program, you can run every chess program that allows for them with it.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I recently found a neat feature of Apple's Chess program that allows the player to speak moves, and the computer to speak back moves which makes blind chess very simple and comfortable.</p>
  
  <p>There are a few quirks with the program though. I sometimes stutter when I speak and the Chess program too often interprets what I say as "Undo" with no auditory indication that it undoed. This leads to desyncs between the game the computer's playing and the game in my head.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a program with similar speech-to-move functionality except more refined? I'm okay with the limited commands I can give but I can't deal with my games taking back moves with no indication I can observe. Note: Speaking my moves is very important because I'd like to lie down and relax without keeping my hands on the keyboard to type in moves.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Can you provide a link to the program, add which languages it supports for voice recognition and add whether it speaks back to you the moves it makes?
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Title: Software for blind chess?
ThreadText: # Software for blind chess?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-08-01)
  
  I recently found a neat feature of Apple's Chess program that allows the player to speak moves, and the computer to speak back moves which makes blind chess very simple and comfortable.
  
  There are a few quirks with the program though. I sometimes stutter when I speak and the Chess program too often interprets what I say as "Undo" with no auditory indication that it undoed. This leads to desyncs between the game the computer's playing and the game in my head.
  
  Is there a program with similar speech-to-move functionality except more refined? I'm okay with the limited commands I can give but I can't deal with my games taking back moves with no indication I can observe. Note: Speaking my moves is very important because I'd like to lie down and relax without keeping my hands on the keyboard to type in moves.
  
  **Tags:** software, blindfold-chess
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Can you provide a link to the program, add which languages it supports for voice recognition and add whether it speaks back to you the moves it makes?  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-08-10. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  There is a website dedicated to playing chess by voice command:
  <https://sites.google.com/site/chesswithvoice/>
  
  I didn't check it but apparently it gives instructions on using the Interfaces Arena or Fritz using voice command.
  
  Maybe you'll find some interesting possibilities there.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-08-06. Score: 0
  
  Based on your title your question is not clear with regard to voice command for the blind. But Braille chess has been available for years. There are a number of groups specifically for this. [The Braille Chess Association of Ireland](http://www.iol.ie/~vics/bcai/)
  
  I am sure there are many US based as well.
  
  The chess.com web site has a good article about the history of Blind Chess...
  [history of blind chess playing](http://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/blind-ambition)
  
  I am sure there is further info on their site about software.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: I thought the question was pretty clearly about blindfold chess.  
  > **username_0**: I'd be okay with 1 link to a specific program as an answer. I.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(OS_X). I read through those two articles and neither of them mention any computer program (only a random Irish dude and some OTB blind chess procedures).  
  > **username_3**: You must have missed the MANY links embedded throughout the article about software, here are a few...http://www.arkangles.com/kchess/blind.html   there are two links here   http://www.arkangles.com/kchess/advance.html  and another... https://sites.google.com/a/aicfb.in/aicfb/talk-64  
  > **username_3**: I think this is the Windows 7 version....http://k-chess-elite.en.softonic.com/?ab=0  
  > **username_3**: Ok not MANY links, but there were a few.  
  > **username_0**: It doesn't matter how many links there are. None of them work. AICFB looked very promising but the download is broken, and the other programs you listed don't have speech-to-move functionality.  
  > **username_3**: Its not broken I just downloaded it. Try this link.http://k-chess-elite.en.softonic.com/download#downloading look for the green bar at the top that says "if your download does not start click here"  I don't why you don't think they work, I was able to access all of them. good luck, I hope that helps.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2015-08-01. Score: 0
  
  Nimzo Guernica 2.2.1, an old DOS program published in 1993, had extensions for physically blind people including voice output. But I have no idea if it is operable on today's hardware and I assume it lacked speech recognition. But as you can train keyboard commands to a speech recognition program, you can run every chess program that allows for them with it.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: The program I'm looking for has voice-to-move functionality.  
  
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