Is this a capacity issue?
It is only occurring with new commands, the previously existing commands functioning perfectly.
How can I increase the capacity of global commands text if this is really the problem?

All I got from their email support was canned emails. It’s obvious that they didn’t read what I wrote. I wasn’t able to log in to their website, and they kept sending me the same reply over and over (8 times).

After a lot of searching, I got through on a phone. The agent promised to research my situation, but then I never heard back from him.

I’ve found dozens of complaints like mine on the internet.

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I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts if you’ve tried it. Please
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Peter Maddern

I find that accuracy and ‘flow’ are dramatically better in the ‘Dragon Pad’ app, compared to others. For example, input to Thunderbird mail windows is excruciatingly slow - to the point of being useless. I would be interesting to know if others have had a similar experience in their use of DNS?

bc

Here’s the point. I have used NaturallySpeaking for about a decade now and every time it comes out with a new version it seems as if the accuracy of my current version all of a sudden gets a lot worse. I was wondering if anybody had the same problem?

We live in a wonderful age. Here I am in St. Louis, Missouri, USA and you are helping me from the UK!

The check you suggested for Sound discovered no problems. I tried using the Dragonpad approach and still the dictation was garbled. I went to the Acer HD Audio Manager and increased the microphone recording level and invoked the Boost feature. This helped a little, but the error rate during dictation was still unacceptably high.

The solution for me was to start Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5 and then open an Internet connection using Windows Explorer. I use Google Gmail. There was virtually no problem dictating as an email. Some of the formatting features are missing such as use of the Tab key, but on the whole this is a solution for me, with the usual corrections in dictation that Dragon requires.

I copied the email dictation into Microsoft Word 2007 and made the necessary formatting changes. I am puzzeled why this method works so well on the Internet. There is some kind of problem with the microphone when using it soley with Dragonpad or dictating into Microsoft Word.

Again thanks for your quick response.

Rich Tripp

PS. My Tripp relatives emigrated to the USA from Horkstow, England about 1600.

Try making a recording in Vista’a sound recorder. To access it, click on the windows start button bottom left hand corner and type “sound” in the “start search” box. Select sound recorder. Save the recording on your desktop and double click to play it back.

If the recording is clean with no electronic noise then your sound card is doing a good job. If it’s a noisy playback (static noise, humming and the like, your sound card is sub optimum or badly shielded.

The solution would be to connect a USB sound adapter to the NC-91.

A word about the NC-91. It should be considered a starter micropANC-hone. It has good recording quality but won’t cancel all the background noise even though the NC stands for “noise cancelling”. You’d do better with an Andrea 700. ANC stands for “active noise cancellation” and as the name suggests, it actively cancels out background noise.

If you have further questions, consider posting on our UK Dragon forum at

http://www.speechempoweredcomputing.co.uk/Forum

Peter Maddern
Speech Empowered Computing, UK
http://www.speechempoweredcomputing.co.uk

Sincerely,

Rich Tripp

However, I recently had to reformat my hard drive and reload DNS9. Ok, I got it up and went through the training routines and gave the program all accesses to documents, e-mail, etc. to familiarize it with whatever it familiarizes itself with. Now it acts as though it is retarded with a speech impediment. It is virtually non-functional.

I would appreciate it if anyone might have a suggestion as to how to correct this problem.

I have problem to install DNS9, error msg is :”The processor is not adequate for running Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9″,
my system is:
Dell Inspiron I6000, Pentium 4, processor 1.73GHz, 367 MHz, 512 MB of RAM, OS version is Windows XP home Version 2002 SP2

Any idea how to fix it ? Thanks.

Tom

What version of Dragon 9 do you have - 9.0, 9.1 0r 9,5?

What operating system are you running (Windows XP or Vista)?

How much RAM do you have?

I have turned off anti virus software and the firewall.

Any suggestions?

The following is a simplistic comparison:-

Create a 1000 word document by manual typing:-

Typing speed - 40 wpm
Time to type 1000 words = 25 minutes
Run spell checker = 1 minute
Total time to create finished document = 26 minutes

Create a 1000 word document by dictation with DNS:-

Brainstorm bullet points (key topic areas) = 2 minutes (guess)
Dictation speed – 120 wpm
Time to dictate 1000 words = 8.3 minutes
Make corrections within DNS = 3 minutes (guess)
Total time to create finished document = 13.3 minutes

Conclusion – half the time using DNS

I’m not 100% sure of the above assumptions but they at least give a good indication that speech recognition is faster than manual typing.

For longer documents, the time saving would become even better with DNS as the word creation part would be an increasing percentage of the total document creation effort.

As everyone is individual, the best would be to run a comparison test yourself by creating two different documents of approximately the same length (but obviously differing in content) using the above techniques and time the results.

I would only use a Mind Map if I wanted to create a large report or if “content quality” was more important than time to complete. A simple list of bullet points doesn’t take long to fashion.

By the way, here are some resources for UK users:-

Our Speech Empowered Computing Blog with tips for using DNS is at

http://www.speechempoweredcomputing.co.uk/Newsletter/

and our Q & A forum is at

http://www.speechempoweredcomputing.co.uk/Forum/

Peter
http://www.speechempoweredcomputing.co.uk

Somewhere along the way I was told to practice things like, ‘Period/paragraph/tab’ or, ‘Spell xxx/question mark/paragraph/indent.’ and just watch the cursor move and see what it takes to get into the real dictating. Those are the kind of things you will be dictating at the end of a line, or in a line (until you make one word macros, that along with keybording will begin to save you time and maybe even save your style–but that’s a different post).

Well, for me it worked and gave me a sense for the way Dragon hears.

The recent poster, is asking how ‘fast’ things go and how much time you will save. Please see the posting from NR above to get my views. I would add that “points”, bullett or talking or what have you, are not necessary preparation for everyone. I would suggest that Dragon be used as a boiler plate for awhile (maybe even for “Points”) to get the sense of it.

Cheers
NR
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This helps. At least your explanation of what’s going on clarifies things for me considerably. I understand you to be saying that I have to become accustomed to thinking BEFORE I dictate rather than trying to dictate in the same mode that I type. What I am wondering is if doing the bullet points and mind maps before you dictate eats up a lot of the time you save by not having to type everything out? This is an important question for me because one of the reasons I purchased NS9 was to save time. I will still use it even if it doesn’t save a lot of time because I believe there are other benefits to the software. But I am just wondering how long it will take me to get up to speed with sort of rewiring the way I work..and if my productivity will suffer as a result. Your thoughts/observations?

Regards,

CT