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> My experience with the montego was very disappointing.
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> regards,
> Andy
Hmm, that's too bad. I started out with the SoundBlaster Vibra16 sound
card and had a very weak signal, an absolutely horrible signal to noise
ratio and terrible, terrible recognition using DragonDictate and
NatSpeak. I then upgraded to a Turtle Beach Tropez Plus soundcard and
had a much improved signal and good signal to noise ratio.
When I got a new computer, it came with the Montego PCI soundcard. I
was prepared to jerk it out if testing proved it to have a worse s/n
ratio or worse recognition. The signal to noise ratio appeared to be
about the same as with my Tropez Plus. The voice recogition factor was
a little harder to quantify, since I had moved to a faster computer with
more RAM. All I know is that my recognition improved very slightly--but
that could have simply been because of the better computer, and I
suspect that it was. So, I'm happy with the Montego PCI sound card.
Since my post on Sunday about locking up in NatSpeak 3.01, I have done
two things to try to resolve the issue:
(1) I disabled Norton's Recycle bin which had been running in the
background; and
(2) I restored from a tape backup my entire NatSpeak directory and
subdirectories from a Saturday backup--which was the day before I
started experiencing problems with NatSpeak on Sunday. I did this
because, while worrying over my problems with NatSpeak, I had remembered
that I had had a crash while working in the Vocabulary Editor in
WordPerfect 8 w/NatSpeak enabled. I thought maybe something had gotten
corrupted that was causing me problems.
At any rate, between those two things I did, I have dicated for about
four hours total, and have NOT experienced the problems again.
Since Norton Antivirus is notorious about
