Hi,

So my friend has been showing me Dragon and I've been playing with it a fair bit, and theres just one question I have with it that I can't seem to find an answer for.

Is there a way to lower the time needed for Dragon to react to voice commands? For instance if I set up a program to run with just single word commands, would it be possible to set Dragon to instantly react when it sees the command has stopped?

In some cases I would like a very fast reaction time to commands, however I'm not sure how viable of an option this is.

Thanks for any thoughts,
Michael

Michael,

Unfortunately, command response time is really a function of Windows performance and hardware configuration. There is no way to influence the speed at which commands are executed. Also, some types of commands are slower than others. For example, Natural Language Commands (i.e., the built-in commands for specific applications which are called constrained grammars) will execute much faster than custom commands because they are written in C++). Custom commands, commands that you create, are executed more slowly depending upon the type of command and the extent of the amount of code to be executed. Once the command recognition appears in the results box, DNS is done. The execution of the command is then handed off to Windows and SAPI and there is no way to influence the speed of execution of these commands after that.

Chuck Runquist
GEMCCON - The Choice of Intelligence
Speech Recognition Consulting and Training

"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." -- Mitch Ratliffe

When asking questions of this type please let us know PRECISELY what NaturallySpeaking product you are using along with your computer specs. Example: Standard 8, Preferred 9.5, Pro 10, KnowBrainer 2008 etc.. The additional information helps us to focus our response. We generally concur with Chuck but because you haven't filled out your user profile section we cannot look up additional information so you pretty much have to include all the pertinent data in each posting.

There are a lot of reasons why your commands may take longer to deploy ranging from Ram or Windows (as noted by Chuck) to what version of DNS you are using. For example, DNS 8 and 9 include a typical 3 to 4 second time lag before dropping text into a document while this problem does not exist in Ver. 10. On our computer, it is almost impossible for us to distinguish between the deployment of a personal command and one of the built and natural language commands but we are working with an i7 3.2 GHz quad core processor, 12 Gb of RAM and Vista 64.