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 | | From: | Scott Kelley | | Subject: | Speach to Text on 2.2G Celeron? | | Date: | 19 Dec 2004 03:42:31 -0800 |
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 | Considering speech to text to create rough draft of articles I am
writing. Also considering purchasing a laptop that has a 2.2G Celeron
with 256k memory. Opinions as to whether that is a powerful enough
system to work well?
Thanks,
Scott Kelley
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| | From: | John Doe | | Subject: | Re: Speach to Text on 2.2G Celeron? | | Date: | Sun, 19 Dec 2004 18:31:28 GMT |
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| "Scott Kelley" wrote:
>Considering speech to text to create rough draft of articles I am
>writing. Also considering purchasing a laptop that has a 2.2G
>Celeron with 256k memory. Opinions as to whether that is a
>powerful enough system to work well?
First and foremost. Do not buy ViaVoice, it will cripple your system.
Not just because it is fatware, but also because it is poorly written
fatware. It is written like a big bowl of spaghetti. Do not be
suckered by the marketing, IBM is good at marketing and always has
been. I'm not an expert on speech recognition, but I am an expert
personal computer user (hardware and Windows).
Buy Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7. It is made by the same company which
sells ViaVoice anyway. If possible, try it first. There is an
Essentials version which can give you a good idea.
Or you can go to eBay and buy Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 preferred
for $30 if you live in the United States.
Good luck. Have fun.
For what it's worth.
If you do not suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome and do not otherwise
have a physical need for speech recognition to help you use a
personal computer, you do not need all the benefits the Preferred
version provides. I think there is a wow affect at first. Give
yourself a lot of time and experience before any upgrade.
Speech to text (my symmetrical renaming of speech recognition) is
well worth upgrading your computer for. In other words IMO the
question is not whether your system can handle it, the question is
whether you can use it. If you can, you probably will be happy to
upgrade your computer or even buy a new computer.
There is a well-known rule about computing among professionals. You
pick the applications before picking hardware. What you want to do is
more important than what your computer can do.
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| | From: | martin at emicrophones.com | | Subject: | Re: Speach to Text on 2.2G Celeron? | | Date: | 19 Dec 2004 05:28:44 -0800 |
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| Scott,
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Considering speech to text to create rough draft of articles I am
writing. Also considering purchasing a laptop that has a 2.2G Celeron
with 256k memory. Opinions as to whether that is a powerful enough
system to work well?
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If you are going to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking, IBM ViaVoice or
Microsoft Speech, the 2.2 Celeron should be fine. However, for Windows
2000, a minimum of 512 Meg RAM is called for and for XP, at least 768
Meg RAM is preferred. We do not recommend Windows 98 as it does not
handle speech recognition optimally.
To see what you are getting yourself into, we have a short article on
our web site titled, "Key Steps to High Speech Recognition Accuracy"
at:
http://www.emicrophones.com/docDetails.asp?DocumentID=38
It explains the hardware (including microphones and sound cards) as
well as training. Training not only includes training the software, but
training yourself. See our Links/Articles section. The first bullet has
three sound files on How to Sound and How not to Sound.
--
Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
The best microphones for Speech Recognition
See us at: http://www.eMicrophones.com
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