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Technology Stocks : Voice and/or Speech Recognition: The Next Holy Grail -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John T. Harbaugh who wrote (26)	4/7/1998 8:46:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90

>> you could have a hardware problem-- maybe a sound card that isn't optimal for voice recognition. In fact, I just read the other day (and I'll be darned if I can remember where) that many popular sound cards, specifically the Sound Blasters (except for very latest) do especially poorly with Via Voice (and to a lesser extent Dragon Dictate). Whereas both of these can do quite well with other cards. My memory tells me Turtle Beach, but I DO NOT remember for sure, so please do independent verification if you're looking for a sound card for these products. Also please tell me. Some day in the next year or two I'm going to split for one, I expect. Which is partly why I'm here now. I have no firsthand knowledge of these products, but I've followed the field from a distance with great interest for many years. I am inclined to believe also that this is possibly one of the next great technology breakthroughs. Dragon in particular seems to be closing in on genuine continuous speech recognition. Clearly a long way from perfect, but now approaching feasibility, or so I conclude from my casual reading. Regards, Spots

To: John T. Harbaugh who wrote (26)	4/10/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 90

John, You need at least a pentium 233 and 64 meg of memory for DD to work optimally. Forget their minimum system reccos(133 +16M), they rae trying to broaden their sales. I bought the IBM and dragon dictate and use a 133 with 16M, dogsville, so I upped to 233 MMX and 64 M RAM. At this the Dragon preferred was better than IBM.You also need a good microphone with an inline amplifier(many SB cards do not give out enough voltage to operate a powered mike properly) You must also have a very quiet area to work in. Test it with a radio in the background. When the radio is 20% of your volume it will slow it down a lot. Even randon street noise slows it down. Bill