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Dragan asserts the SoundBlaster 16 Basic as the "standard". I bought an
Acer computer containing an Mwave and it was clear that Dragon did not
design DNS to work with it. I thought the mike was dead until the DNS
tech support person proved with W95 Sound Recorder that the mike was
just fine. He encouraged me to replace the Mwave with a sound blaster
and another modem. I'd did. DNS worked great. Hated the telephony and
other problems (2 pairs of mic and spkr jacks) which resulted from
getting rid of the Mwave. Reinstalled the Mwave and switched from DNS
to IBM ViaVoice (which works reall well with the Mwave, much to my
relief.
Seems to me that if interested parties can achieve standards for fax and
modem data transmissions, it would not be so hard to develop a standard
(or a standardizing box) to overcome the need for mixing and matching
and fiddling with software controls which is the unhappy lot of many on
this list
Thanks for sharing with us.
Alan
p.s. When's IBM ViaVoice "Platinum" coming along to solve all the
control problems the Dragon Dictate/DNS P/DLX group here seems to be
having? (Just friendly encouragement to IBM, not trying to start a war
;-)
MONKOWSK@@watson.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Taku,
> There is no universal standard for sound card interfaces. ViaVoice
> works on IBM products because it was tested and developed on IBM hardware
> as well as other vendors' hardware.
>
> Mike Monkowski, IBM Speech Group programmer
>
> =========================================================================
> From: "Taku Kato" <six10351@@super.win.or.jp>
> Cc: "The Vypers" <voice-users@@voicerecognition.com>
> Subject: RE: speech engines used
> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 02:02:55 +0900
> Sender: voice-users@@voicerecognition.com
>
> Related to this question, I would be very interested in knowing the precise
> technical differences in the speech engines and overall architecture of
> Naturally Speaking and Via Voice that enables Via Voice to work on IBM
> products (in other words, the Mwave modem/sound card found on Think Pads)
> that otherwise seem to confound NS.
> In other words, what is that allows Via Voice to work with the dreaded Mwave
> sound card?
>
> Taku Kato (six10351@@first.win.or.jp)
