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| Thread ID: 71357 | 2006-08-03 06:45:00 | typing using voice | effie c (6856) | Press F1 |
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| 475819 | 2006-08-04 13:15:00 | I don't know about others, but no - I wasn't talking about narrator. I was talking about the XP voice recognition engine, which office uses, vs Dragon NaturallySpeaking. effie_c - I don't know exactly what a secondhand version would cost, but I would have thought it would be substantially cheaper than a new version. I would guess under NZ$100, but this is just a stab in the dark. If you do decide to buy a secondhand copy, get v5.0 or higher - versions lower than this weren't so great. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 475820 | 2006-08-04 20:54:00 | Hi Bletch, Thank you -yes in Trade and Exchange Dragon v 8 is offered at from $80 and that is very tempting-however at the moment I am trying to find out whether my inbuilt sound will cope-- a mate from F1 rang me last night and offered help but when I had opened up various tabs etc at his request, he tells me that my sound will not cope and I have to have a card put in - what is inbuilt regards sound is AC97 audio and is not enough On Monday I will take the pooter in to a firm in town and they can install a sound card and a new microphone, if this is the trouble-seeing I am getting some sound/voice/typing I am still wondering whether the is an install fault when I set it up am very frustrated at the moment as I see what an asset voice type would be over my pick and poke typing and edit mistakes all the time effie c |
effie c (6856) | ||
| 475821 | 2006-08-05 00:35:00 | In my experience the onboard sound will usually cope fine, as long as you have a microphone jack, and the correct drivers installed. ANY full duplex 16 bit card (or onboard) with mic input should do the job just fine. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 475822 | 2006-08-05 02:44:00 | Hi Bletch, Now that is interesting- my brother has exactly the same instalation as me- except I have XP Pro compared to his XP Home. They can use their set-up for voice so well that what was my plan, initially, "it is there I want to master it" --then never use it,---become a much more important plan to overcome my "pick and poke typing" And as such I want to get things going as well as they. I see my microphone is no longer working and when I go to test it in "control panel >speech etc I get a message "microphone cannot be used as the necessary engine has not been set up " and please select a different audio device" etc etc---pointing to perhaps a microphone failure or similar-- but can that also be why voice is not working? I doubt it as I used to be able to use that voice in E mail-- now there is nothing, so I T shop here I come effie c |
effie c (6856) | ||
| 475823 | 2006-08-05 03:06:00 | You havent got a voicemodem installed as well, have u Effie?? It sounds like u have one. Or some other audio device is the default device for sound. Coz voicemodems can / or will also appear under the sounds tab, under sounds and audio devices. And if this is selected under the sounds tab, obviously it wont work. See if modem # 1 line playback (or something similar) is selected here, if it is, change it to the soundcard. Likewise for the default device under sound recording. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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