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may have gotten changed if you are experiencing a reduction in performance.
I switched from a Pentium-166 to a PentiumPro 200 and got a very substantial
increase in performance. Also investigate the amount of memory you have.
Regards,
Larry Allen
Softnet Systems, Inc.
In a message dated 98-01-02 00:02:40 EST, daft@@crd.ge.com writes:
> Subj: Macro migration from DD 3.0 to Nat Deluxe
> Date: 98-01-02 00:02:40 EST
> From: daft@@crd.ge.com (Chris M.W. Daft)
> Sender: voice-users-owner@@voicerecognition.com
> To: voice-users@@voicerecognition.com, support@dragonsys.com, schneider@crd.
> ge.com
> CC: epstein@@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, joelg@alum.mit.edu
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a long-time DD user [programming and email, UNIX and a2x]. I had
> played with Nat, but didn't take much notice of it until I received the
> Deluxe edition, which supports the construction of voice macros, much [I
> think] as DD 3.0 does. This is because I was satisfied with DD 3.0, it
> takes less memory, and much of what I do is naturally isolated word
> recognition anyway.
>
> Recently my work PC was "upgraded" to a Pentium Pro, and DD 3.0 now runs
> HORRIBLY slowly. I suspect this is due to the PPro's weakness at 16 bit
> software like DD. So I need to migrate my macros to Nat [which works
> fine on my PPro], before I go crazy waiting for DD. I realize that Nat
> doesn't recognize different Windows apps the way DD does, but I spend
> most of my time dictating into a telnet window anyway, so this isn't an
> issue. I switch manually between vocabulary groups since I use UNIX and
> a2x.
>
> I added a macro to Nat, and saw that it ended up in a file named
> GLOBAL.DVC in a sort of C-language form. So before I write a program to
> convert all my lovingly crafted `add-word [foo] "bar" /nr /c /p'
> statements to however Nat wants it, a couple of questions:
>
> 1. Is there any documentation for this GLOBAL.DVC file, or do I need to
> pick it up from the entries Dragon ships? I've read Joel Gould's _very_
> helpful page [http://people.ne.mediaone.net/gould/natspeak-faq.html] but
> it doesn't cover this. I have looked at the help file for Nat, and it
> seems just to describe how to make command and control macros using the
> Wizard.
>
> 2. Has anybody written a conversion program (DD macros to Nat)?
>
> 3. Any comments on the flexibility of Nat macros vs. DD macros?
>
> 4. Does anyone think there's a chance :-) of Dragon releasing a
> completely 32 bit version of DD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
> daft@@crd.ge.com
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