> > Ervin,
> >
> > Besides increasing your physical memory you could increase performance
> > by installing a better hard drive if you have one that is more than a
> > couple of years old. My old one had a seek time of 17ms while my new
> > one has a seek time that is half that. The result was that my
> > processing speed about doubled.
> >
> > Bruce
> > 56/9
> > Sinemet CR & Mirapex
>
> Bruce,
>
> I understand from reading your recent messages you are using Dragon
> Systems software. I have been considering it myself. I have a pentium
> 166 with lots of RAM and a reasonably fast hard drive. I'm curious about
> what you meant about processing speed increased. Does that mean you could
> talk faster or what? What does the software do when you overrun it. I
> have never tried any voice recognition software, so I would appreciate
> your information.
>
> Thanks
> Julian Hansen 58/1
>
> Julian , Hi
Well dont belive everything you read . I was succesfully using
Dragon Dictate on my 486 DX 2 66 a year ago ( 12 Meg RAM 500 Meg
HD half filled ) . There was no time delay in the processing . The
time consumption was in teaching it to recognise your speach and your
response to its options . When you speak you must break it up into
words . It will print what word it thinks you said plus giving you a
menu of options of other words you can choose from the menu or go
onto the next word . As you can see the system depnds a lot on
you reaction time . I chose the smallest vocabulary option . I believe
it was 20,000 words. Obviously the bigger the vocab. the longer the
computer takes going through the vocab options for a match .
Since a vacab of 1000 will do most English words any more than a
20000 word vocab is unnecessary . You will always have to use a
spelling option for words such as proper names etc. With a 20000 word
vocab you will use this slightly more often . The speed will depend on
you changing over to this option faster rather than the miniscule
reduction in its usage by having 100000 word option . The biggeer the
program the more problems . I was using windows 3.11 .
I stopped using it because of computer problems . I think I have a
virus ( 3 different antiviral programs name 3 different viruses ! ) .
I had to scrub the HD clean . Still having minor problems . When I
can guarantee no viruses I will try again .
Of course there might have been a dramatic improvement requiring
vastly more memory since I used Dragon Dictate but I doubt it . The
basic problem is that it uses word recognition . I speak in
sentences and unil there is gramatical analysis and recognition of
what I an saying I will have to check it continually which slows
everything down .
To sum up , I was the slow link and having a bigger faster
computer does therefore not help .
peace
Alastair ( [log in to unmask] )
