Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Petz who wrote (49990)	2/18/1999 6:29:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570649

Petz - Re: "Later in the article they also give some examples for SSE-optimized programs. The P-III-500 is then capable of improvements ranging from 45% (Dragonfly Naturally Speaking), 52% (Microsoft Netshow encoder) to 91% (specific filters in Adobe Photoshop 5.2). 45% Improvement with KNI - Dragon Naturally Speaking 52% Improvement with KNI - Net SHow Encoder 91% Improvement with KNI - Specific Filters for Adobe Photoshop 5.2 Now that is IMPRESSIVE Thanks for posting this very good news. Paul

To: Petz who wrote (49990)	2/18/1999 9:41:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570649

John, Very unimpressive performance, except for the KNI benchmarks, they are a parallel to the AMD 3D instructions, big improvement in isolated areas. Speech and graphic processing are demanding and those areas will want the new chips. When will AMD be able to match the KNI? The average person will not see any economic reason to buy the new products. The only potential large market is speech recognition and once you have tried it for a few dry mouth weeks you may not want it. I have tried dragon dictate and the IBM one, and they work very well in a very quiet room with a fast CPU. DD gets to 97% or so, so you still need some proofreading, Via Voice was a bit less accurate ~93-4%. If they could get it into SI it would be nice, cutting and pasting takes time. I have seen several people try voice recognition and then abandon it due to the dry mouth and aching jaw syndrome, unless you are a high volume orator(or want to be one) the hard work to get your jaws in shape for volume dictation is onerous, far more onerous that dictation into a recorder as you can slur and mutter and the transcriber copes, but not DD or VV, gotta be clear. Now if this is a sawoff that DD and VV make for speed and the KNI will allow slur and mutter to be correctly transcribed as the faster speed will let the machine keep up....then big market as the onerous task of dictation with precision will become casual chatter, the FBI will love this new ability to autobug meetings and get printed output?? Bill