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I think a lot of people around here have been calling a misrecognition a
"speako" -- it may not be as technically parallel as some of the other
suggestions but you'll find that it's really easy to remember and rolls off
the tongue nicer than some of the alternatives. Though you'd think
"drag-o" would give us more brand recognition, I equate it to saying "that
movie's a Waterworld" :-)
I've seen the low hum people are referring to on many different laptop
computers. Its origin is naturally mysterious as the AC power supply
shouldn't be having a problem, yet it is known that some of these "humming"
computers stop buzzing if run only on battery power. There is one theory
kicking around: the low-pitched hum which rears its ugly head and ruins
recognition could be a combination of a poor laptop power converter and a
not-properly-shielded microphone cord acting as an antenna picking up radio
waves. The 60 Hz signal coming in from your wall socket (and not
completely converted to DC by the laptop power supply) then acts as some
sort of carrier wave for the antenna and creates the hum. (You can make
the hum more or less audible by moving the cord around, sometimes even get
more noise by putting it over a monitor, etc.) If you have some sort of
microphone battery box (Andrea supplies one, VXI's Parrott Translator box
does a good job) or power supply (a UPS should do the trick) to improve
either the incoming signal or the microphone signal then you'll have
minimal but noticeable improvements. I think. Mind you, this is all
slightly esoteric speculation based on sketchy empirical evidence -- I just
thought I'd throw it out to the voice-users community to see if anyone else
has had similar experiences or could corroborate this, with any of the
speech recognition systems out there. For goodness sake don't go out and
spend all your dinero on fancy microphones and UPS's just from this sidebar
conversation.
--Jeff, trying desperately to remember his electromagnetic courses having
forsaken his engineering degree for the Dark Side (marketing)
(insert usual disclaimers about Jeff trying to be a helpful generic speech
recognition user rather than a representive of Dragon Systems)
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