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> One person last week noted DragonDictate performed more slowly on a
> PentiumPro
> - -- not a Pentium II. Correspondence with that person discovered that
> the
> person went from a M-APCA card to an on-board sound card; a very likely
> cause
> for the slowdown. My own experience with clients is that Pentium-II
> systems
> make DragonDictate look very good.
>
It was me! I should largely retract my comment. I believe the slowness I
was observing using DragonDictate was due instead to not completely
disabling the onboard sound hardware on this Hewlett-Packard machine. As
someone else noted, Hewlett-Packard is not renowned for audio quality. So I
bought a Tropez sound card on the recommendation of Dragon technical
support. Unfortunately, Windows 95 still wants to install drivers for the
motherboard sound chip unless you try very hard to stop it. I believe that
I have achieved this now, and DragonDictate is working better. I didn't
have to do the possibly unwise replacement of my ACPA card into this
machine.
The Pentium II processor is reputed to perform better on sixteen bit
software than the Pentium pro, for a given clock speed, but for the system
I'm building for home use, I went with the 233 MHz AMD K-6 processor and the
HX (not TX) chipset.
What I don't understand is why Dragon doesn't compile the whole of
DragonDictate as 32 bit software. From what I can tell from using Norton
Utilities, pieces of it are 32 bit, but the majority is sixteen bit. The
macro facilities of NaturallySpeaking seem incomplete enough to hold off
moving to that program until Dragon has done some more work on it. At least
for my type of work, which tends to be short bits of text and programming.
Chris
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