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Dragon Dictate Naturally Speaking - setup

#199

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:00

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I've just installed Dragon Dictate Naturally Speaking (personal Edition
Version 1) on my Dell PII 450. I have a Turtlebeach Montego II 320
soundcard

When I launch the programme, it tells me I must first run the Audio Set-
-Up Wizard, which is then launched automatically.

This reports:

        The sample rates and/ or sample sizes supported by the sound 
        system are not compatible with the Audio Setup wizard

The help file then suggests running the wizard again, restarting the
computer or reinstalling the soundcard.

The wizard then continues, and reports:

        Audio Setup wizard has detected the possibility of there being
        more than one sound sytsem on your system. If you experience 
        difficulty completing the Audio Setup wizard or you cannot 
        sucessfully opperate your sepeech recognition product, click 
        Help and refer to the topic "Extra Sound System Warning."

The help topic then tells me I should have no problem, but of I do asks
me to physically remove and reinstall the soundcard.

I can complete the test, but when the wizard finishes, DD is not
running, and starting it up again prompts me once more to run the
wizard.

Before I go through the drastic process of removing and reinstalling a
soundcard which seem s to work perfectly in every other respect, any
ideas?

Finally, if you're reading, Mr Gates, it would be really handy to have
the ability to copy error messages to the clipboard!
-- 
Andy Mabbett

Re: Dragon Dictate Naturally Speaking - setup

#197

Author: Andy Mabbett
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:00

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In article <kZFKgYA1mUz2Ew9G@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, I wrote:

>Dragon advise:
>
>In relation with your problem with Dragon Dictate version 1,I have to
>inform that this version is not supportted any more (by 2 years at
>least),on the other side we are guessing that you are using Windows 98
>and this Dragon software was never tested for it.We advise you to
>upgrade to version 3

In the light of this, I'm looking to invest in some new dictation
software; It'll be top of the range, I want to be able to use it in MS
Office and other, non MS apps, and to use it to control both kind of
apps.

What do people recommend?

I might also go for one of those with a digital "Dictaphone". What
experience do people have of them?

Cheers,
-- 
Andy Mabbett: allow me to recommend some Win 9x *Freeware* (size zipped):
 Graph paper printer: http://perso.easynet.fr/~philimar/ 342K
 Conv't measurements: http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/index.htm 956K
 Close all apps in 1 click: http://www.agora.stm.it/B.Kropp/freeware.html  20K

Re: Dragon Dictate Naturally Speaking - setup

#196

Author: steven9000
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:00

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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:25:36 +0000, Andy Mabbett
<andy@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <kZFKgYA1mUz2Ew9G@pigsonthewing.demon.co.uk>, I wrote:
>
>>Dragon advise:
>>
>>In relation with your problem with Dragon Dictate version 1,I have to
>>inform that this version is not supportted any more (by 2 years at
>>least),on the other side we are guessing that you are using Windows 98
>>and this Dragon software was never tested for it.We advise you to
>>upgrade to version 3
>
>In the light of this, I'm looking to invest in some new dictation
>software; It'll be top of the range, I want to be able to use it in MS
>Office and other, non MS apps, and to use it to control both kind of
>apps.
>
>What do people recommend?
>
>I might also go for one of those with a digital "Dictaphone". What
>experience do people have of them?
>
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Andy Mabbett: allow me to recommend some Win 9x *Freeware* (size zipped):
> Graph paper printer: http://perso.easynet.fr/~philimar/ 342K
> Conv't measurements: http://www.joshmadison.com/software/convert/index.htm 956K
> Close all apps in 1 click: http://www.agora.stm.it/B.Kropp/freeware.html  20K
>
>        
>     
Well I can tell you this, AVOID DRAGON DICTATE!
DD is unreliable and barely recognises 'A' from 'B' and displays a
"???" instead. Advice:Go for the new IBM program they're working on,
its meant to be good :-)

Steve.

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