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The vocab builder does have a 500 document limit, even if each document
is only 1K in size. I just ran vocab builder on 75 documents, 2.9 megs
total, on my PentII-233, 128 meg ram, Win95B system without problems.
Nat Pro ver 3.
Holland
Su wrote:
>
> I've done everything I can do ... and I'm ready to give it all up. I
> don't know what else to do anymore. I'm beyond frustrated.
>
> As a refresher, I intalled v3.0 Preferred on a "pure" system. There
> was no previous version of Dragon on my system at all. I chose New
> User and BestMatch, with total certainty. After training I was using
> the Vocabulary Builder and out an ERROR_OUTOFMEMORY message. The
> reseller had no idea what the problem was, and neither did Dragon tech
> support. I followed their suggestions and the problem did not go away.
> So I did the following:
>
> 1. Deleted NatSpeak totally and cleaned up the Registry, removing all
> pointers to NatSpeak.
> 2. Reinstalled Win98.
> 3. Reintalled NatSpeak v3.0. and again chose New User and BestMatch.
> 4. Did General Training as I was required.
> 5. Spent the last 6+ hours using the Vocabulary Builder (file was
> slowly increased to 1918K, as I kept adding more and more files to it)
> and also manually adding hundreds of entries into the Vocabulary
> Editor.
>
> Everything went well through last night ... until now ...
>
> Spent an hour this morning adding another few hundred entries into the
> Vocabulary Editor. One thing that puzzled me was the hourglass
> appearing about 6 different times during this process. I waited
> patiently until it disappeared and continued.
>
> Next, I took the 1918K file (about 1000 pages) from last night, and
> added another 1000 pages to it. Saved the file. Went into Dragon and
> tried to use the Vocabulary Builder. Got the same error message. Tried
> again to read the file and same problem.
>
> Exited Dragon and reduced the size of the file (elminated 800 pages).
> Saved it. Rebooted. Entered Dragon. Tried Vocabulary Builder again ...
> same error message.
>
> COM returned an unexpected error code. Details are ERROR_OUTOFMEMORY
>
> Did a search on the Microsoft web site, and I found a solution ... but
> it's a Developer's problem and I have to get the Win98 DDK kit in
> addition to a compiler like C++ ... oh this is getting interesting.
> Wonderful. Peachy keen. .... I'll let my programmer husband handle it.
>
> Okay ... let me just try the program talking regular English. How's
> about I quote Lincoln.
>
> And *this* is what I said, around 160 wpm, 140 wpm and 120 wpm,
> respectively:
> Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this
> continent a new nation. Conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
> proposition that all men are created equal.
>
> And the following is what I got:
>
> 160 wpm: For store in seven years ago our phones brought forth on
> this continent indignation. Conceived a liberty and dedicated to the
> proposition Orman created equal.
>
> 140 wpm: For score in seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon
> this continent animation. Conceived and liberty and dedicated to the
> proposition that Orman created equal.
>
> 120 wpm: For score in seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon
> this continent a new nation. Conceived and liberty and dedicated to
> the proposition that Orman are created equal.
>
> Where is that fantastic recognition? This is plain English. I should
> have had diamond-cutting precision accuracy ... what I got was the
> need to talk slower. What's next, 100 wpm, 95 wpm ...???
>
> Somebody out there PLEASE (groveling, on knees) tell me what to do.
> Right now I'm completely tapped out.
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