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>The best thing to
>do is to save your list of custom words and phrases from your ver 2
>vocabulary, perform the upgrade to ver 3, and when finished delete all
>the users and topics that show up in the version 3 menus. Then start a
>new user and new topic, picking the BestMatch options for each of them.
>Do the General Training for your new user/topic, add back your custom
>words/phrases/voice shortcuts, do vocabulary building and get going on
>tuning and training your new voice files.
Whew. So after all that, which amounts to retraining from scratch, is it
worth it? How well does BestMatch work? In fact, how much better is DNS
3, in your opinion? It's a big decision for me, because on the one hand
NS has become an essential tool for me as a writer, and I'm churning out
work much faster, since I talk lots faster than I type. On the other
hand, the low-end (Pentium 233 MMX, 48 Mb RAM) PC that I bought in
February works fine for DNS Preferred 2.02, but I know it isn't going to
cut it for DNS 3, so I'd have to buy a whole new PC.
Side rant: I can't believe that in 1998 there are computers being made
that top out at only 48Mb of RAM! I can't put more than that in this
Compaq box! Being mostly a Mac user, and having the ability to put more
RAM than I could afford in every Mac I've owned in the past five years, I
didn't even consider that a modern machine would have a RAM ceiling.
Arrrrgghh.
And on the OTHER other hand, DNS 2.02 works OK for me, but I'd still like
to get better accuracy (I've followed the Rose Regime), and it would be
nice to get more control over Word 97, which is what I write in.
So, is the improvement in NS3 one of degree, or in kind? Is it worth the
hassle of buying a new PC? Is BestMatch a real help, or is it
RealMarketingHype?
Thanks in advance for helping the confused.
Tom Negrino
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