Philips SpeechMike
Jonathan Kahn (kahn@@mail.icongrp.com)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:22:30 -0500

I have a 200Mhz Dell computer w/128 M RAM and 4M RAM running on Win95. I
have an external Adtran modem. I use the computer to receive teleradiology
transmissions from my hospital and was thinking of using the computer to
experiment with speech recognition. The system worked fine with a
Microsoft mouse that came with the unit. I had a SpeechMike installed (COM
1, IRQ 4) with the Adtran (COM 4, IRQ 3). No hardware conflict was
observed. When the installer went to the setting device manager, he
clicked on the mouse icon and clicked on SpeechMike. He then clicked reset
to activate SpeechMike. As a result, the external modem indicator LED's
started flashing and the Adtran modem reset. The upshot was that
activating the SpeechMike inactivated the modem and made it impossible for
me to receive transmitted images. I had to deactivate SpeechMike and have
returned to using the Microsoft mouse. My installer had no idea why I had
a problem with the SpeechMike. Any suggestions? J. Kahn