Dragon Voice Recognition Computer Software
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I use Dragon 2.51 on a clone PC in the following configuration Taiwanese Pentium motherboard with IBM 686 P166+ CPU, 32M RAM, Win95, audiowave Platinum sound card and my old Shure SM10A mic. I have observed 2 things. a) My Audiowave Platinum is an obsolete card. It does however have one unique feature which is a switch i.e. jumper on the card that allows me to use a dynamic microphone i.e. the Shure. It has so much gain that if I am not careful with the Windows mixer settings I am continuously in Dragon's microphone colour of red rather than green. b) My IBM CPU is lightning fast for integer calculations. I have set my options/recognition/computation in the center of the slide bar with no performance problems. Indeed I am dictating this into my mail package which is Pegasus mail at very good accuracy and speed that I am happy with. If you want to compare the speed of your PC with mine one way is to create a new user and look in the dgnsrvr.log file in the DDWIN directory. When the new user is created Dragon will do a test on the CPU and suggest a computation parameter. In my machine the integer performance parameter is 162 and the computation parameter is 24. My recognition is excellent however I am not a speed user, accuracy is more important to me. I have found that if I have a lower computation parameter i.e. moving the slide bar to faster then my recognition is less. My main conclusion is buy the fastest CPU you can get. P.S. a word of caution the IBM CPU is NOT as fast at floating point calculations as it is with integer calculations. > Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:38:07 -0800 > From: edrose19 <edrose19@mail.idt.net> > To: Alain Desilets <alain@ai.iit.nrc.ca> > Cc: voice-users%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com > Subject: Re: New Performance Thread > Alain Desilets wrote: > > > > I would love to know people's opinion on that! I have never been able to get > > beyond 90% accuracy in dictate mode. Dragon Systems has been > > incredibly good in trying to help me get beyond that, but nothing I > > try seems to help. > > > > I think it may have something to do with the way I project my > > voice. People often have difficulty hearing and recognizing what I say > > so that would make it hard for DD... > > > > > > Would like to propose a new thread of discussion. There > > > seems to be a very wide range in the performance of Dragon, > > > Kurzweil and Voicetype. NOT TALKING ABOUT COMPARING THE > > > PRODUCTS, but, rather, why User A of Dragon would > > > experience far better/worse performance than User B of Dragon, etc. > > > Does anyone have any ideas as to why? > > > Rose > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Alain Desilets > > Institute for Information Technology > > National Research Council of Canada > > > > e-mail: alain@ai.iit.nrc.ca > > I, too, speak very softly when dictating. I have tried several > different mic.s. Whenever I try a new mic., I create a new > user, import all my ddxs into the new user and dictate into > that voice file for a few days. Don't know if it is really > necessary to go to all this trouble but my primary voice files/ > performance is very, very good and don't want to do anything > that would mess that up. Anyway, the mic. that seems to > perform the best for me is the VXI. It is so sensitive on > my system that I had to turn it way, way down. If you are not > using the VXI (one with the ear pad-speaker) then you might > want to consider getting one (try it in a new user) > Hope this helps, > Rose > > >