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When you use a computer for speech recognition other factors can affect speech
recognition performance. The audio characteristics play very heavily into
what
is "compatible". The fidelity, signal-to-noise-ratio and the soundcard's
input gain, sensitivity or impedance can determine performance. Noise caused
by electronic components can depreciate signal quality. Noise in notebooks
can
be an even larger problem due to the proximity of noise generating components
to sound chips that may pick up noise. Microphones can often other solutions
or problems depending on how you mate them. Certainly the raw CPU and memory
requirements are a reasonable constant but audio is not, however, it is also
possible to select a motherboard that wastes rather utilizes all the resources
you install on it. These issues can be further complicated if the user's
voice
is not very strong. When a user's voice presents a challenge then all of
these
issues become more important. A strong speaker can often compensate for
deficiencies in the audio characteristics of the system. Speakers with
smaller
voices can frequently benefit from a careful matching of soundcard and
microphone characteristics. Unlike other computer software applications
speech
recognition can provide some real challenges to some users with certain
configurations or voice characteristics. It sure doesn't make the job any
easier for those of us who configure these systems that the industry is
changing the specifications and characteristics of every component almost
daily.
At 09:50 AM 7/6/98 -0400, Jim Green wrote:
>I seem to be missing something here. As long as a computer has enough CPU
>power and has a good sound card, how can it NOT be compatible with DD or
>Nat Spk??? Surely a P-II 233 (all P-IIs have MMX) is not only adequate,
>but overkill? As I understand it, the "Dragon compatibility list" is just
>a list of hardware that Dragon has tested. Just because they haven't
>tested a system doesn't mean that it won't work. Or am I missing something?
>
>-------------------------------------------------
>At 05:09 AM 7/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>It did!?! The voice file was created using my good
>>computer. This is the Dell Inspiron that is on
>>Dragon Dictate's certified compatibility list. I
>>paid about $3,500 for it. I have until the 20th
>>of July to return it if I decide that I don't want
>>it. If I return it, all I lose is my shipping fee
>>of 25 dollars. Unfortunately, I don't have any
>>more money to spend. This is a 266 MHz MMX Intel
>>Pentium II with 144 MB of RAM, 56 K. modem,
>>Windows 98,XGA 14 inch monitor, a three-year on
>>cite warranty, Microsoft Small Business, 32 X CD
>>ROM, and a floppy drive.
clip
>>I did a test to quantify my accuracy rate. I
>>dictated some introductory text from one of my
>>law books. I had a total word count of 410 (after
>>subtracting out the words that I put in my
>>document to show what the computer should have
>>said). My document had 69 errors. By my
>>calculation, that is an accuracy rate of about 83
>>percent. That is about the highest that I have
>>ever gotten.
>>
>>Mary
>>
>
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When you use a computer for speech recognition other factors
can affect speech recognition performance. The audio
characteristics play very heavily into what is
"compatible". The fidelity, signal-to-noise-ratio
and the soundcard's input gain, sensitivity or impedance can
determine performance. Noise caused by electronic components can
depreciate signal quality. Noise in notebooks can be an even larger
problem due to the proximity of noise generating components to sound
chips that may pick up noise. Microphones can often other solutions
or problems depending on how you mate them. Certainly the raw CPU
and memory requirements are a reasonable constant but audio is not,
however, it is also possible to select a motherboard that wastes rather
utilizes all the resources you install on it. These issues can be
further complicated if the user's voice is not very strong. When a
user's voice presents a challenge then all of these issues become more
important. A strong speaker can often compensate for deficiencies
in the audio characteristics of the system. Speakers with smaller
voices can frequently benefit from a careful matching of soundcard and
microphone characteristics. Unlike other computer software
applications speech recognition can provide some real challenges to some
users with certain configurations or voice characteristics. It sure
doesn't make the job any easier for those of us who configure these
systems that the industry is changing the specifications and
characteristics of every component almost daily.
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At 09:50 AM 7/6/98 -0400, Jim Green wrote:
>I seem to be missing something here. As long as a computer has
enough CPU
>power and has a good sound card, how can it NOT be compatible with DD
or
>Nat Spk??? Surely a P-II 233 (all P-IIs have MMX) is not only
adequate,
>but overkill? As I understand it, the "Dragon
compatibility list" is just
>a list of hardware that Dragon has tested. Just because they
haven't
>tested a system doesn't mean that it won't work. Or am I
missing something?
>
>-------------------------------------------------
>At 05:09 AM 7/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>It did!?! The voice file was created using my good
>>computer. This is the Dell Inspiron that is on
>>Dragon Dictate's certified compatibility list. I
>>paid about $3,500 for it. I have until the 20th
>>of July to return it if I decide that I don't want
>>it. If I return it, all I lose is my shipping fee
>>of 25 dollars. Unfortunately, I don't have any
>>more money to spend. This is a 266 MHz MMX Intel
>>Pentium II with 144 MB of RAM, 56 K. modem,
>>Windows 98,XGA 14 inch monitor, a three-year on
>>cite warranty, Microsoft Small Business, 32 X CD
>>ROM, and a floppy drive.
clip
>>I did a test to quantify my accuracy rate. I
>>dictated some introductory text from one of my
>>law books. I had a total word count of 410 (after
>>subtracting out the words that I put in my
>>document to show what the computer should have
>>said). My document had 69 errors. By my
>>calculation, that is an accuracy rate of about 83
>>percent. That is about the highest that I have
>>ever gotten.
>>
>>Mary
>>
>
Providers of adaptive and assistive technology solutions.
