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recognition program concurrently with other applications such as MS Word,
eXceed, etc. Hopefully NT manages this concurrency nicely, and allows your
system to tie up some system resources (with all the junk which Rose and
others recommend against, but which I find mostly unavoidable) while still
providing crisp performance.
Please keep us informed regarding the performance which you experience, Jamie.
- Jonathan [ still running on Win95 w/single CPU ]
At 08:56 AM 3/11/98 -0500, Joseph S. Wisniewski wrote:
>I've used a machine that has dual hypersparc RISC processors and an array
>of four C50 floating point DSP chips. Figure between 1 and 1.5 billion
>instructions / second.
>
>Stephanie Sennif at MIT had a recognizer that needed 6 UNIX workstations
>just for the front end.
>
>And the all time winner: a system at AT&T that ran on a computer they
>call "Aspen" which has an array of 128 processors.
>
>Now, for what you're doing, I don't believe any of the commercially
>availiable Windows recognizers (Dragon, IBM, or L&H Kurzweil) are
>multithreaded, and none will take advantage of the extra processor.
>
>Now, UNIX stuff has been multithreaded and multiprocessored for so many
>years that all the major UNIX recognizers (HARK, Nuance, PureSpeech, etc)
>would take full advantage of such a system.
>
>Apparently, whatever your building is multithreaded.
>
>On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jamie Ferguson wrote:
>
>> Has anyone tried using voice recognition on a machine with multiple
>> processors? I'm about to experiment with a 200MhZ Pentium with 2
>> processors and 512MB of RAM.
>>
>> (There actually is a reason for such a machine -- I develop software that
>> takes a VERY long time to build, and 2 processors significantly reduces
>> the amount of time.)
>>
>> FYI I use DragonDictate 3 and NaturallySpeaking Deluxe.
>>
>> Jamie
>>
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