On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 07:53:04 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>The IBM Thinkpad is the standard laptop at Ford. I've never been able to
>get speech recognition running on any 500 series or 700, 750, or 755
>series laptop (and I have at least a dozen in the department). The ones
>that we use for any serious work get docking stations and Fiji cards. Our
>lab measurements showed (this is from memory) something on the order of 6
>or 7 bits of noise on the thinkpad sound system, only 9 or 10 bits of
>usable speech.
>
>I would suggest a PCMCIA soundcard, if you can get card services to work
>on your Thinkpad.
>
>On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, raymond marion wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to get Dragon Systems' Naturally Speaking to work on an IBM
>> Thinkpad 560E, but the setup says that the speach quality is unacceptable.
>> We've tried adjusting the windows control panel for various combinations of
>> sampling and filtering, to no avail. The same mic and program works fine on
>> a Gateway desktop with a 16 bit Soundblaster card.
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Ray
>>
>>
>
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