From: Tom_at_Abacurial.com
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 00:00:09 EST
On Thursday, November 15, 2001 at 19:42, Donald MacQueen
<dmacq_at_erols.com>
wrote re "Re[2]: Recommendations for USB audi" saying:,
> Mark,
>
> a doctor friend of mine got viaVoice to try to transcribe his own
> notes. he had a heck of a time until he found the 'right' microphone,
> and even then he only got 90+ % accuracy which was not good
enough for
> him. but evidently the mic can make a BIG difference.
>
> Thursday, November 15, 2001, 7:01:09 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Dominique,
>
> > This is an old thread from back in '98.
> > Lots of us couldn't get the mike to work.
> > Basically you need an extra plug that
> > comes with the Andrea mike for a TP.
> > Some mikes also work via a battery pre-
> > amp. For some reason the TP mike in
> > ports are strange.
Just unpowered. Condenser mikes need a voltage.
> > As to voice recognition, I had it on
> > my PII233 with Win2K and it actually
> > worked fine. I just couldn't get the
> > hang of talking that way - stopping at
> > every word and thinking as fast as you
> > talk. I have a lawyer friend that says
> > it takes some time but anyone can do it.
> > I'd rather type.
Both Via Voice and Naturally Speaking now work with continuous
speech. You do need memory (at least 128 MB) & Mhz (233 is
minimum. More is better.)
Tom
> > Mark Lemon
> > ProShots, Inc.
> > mlemon_at_proshots.com
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