On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:27:47 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier jean@bornier.net wrote:
Oh joy! My user's files are there, waiting for me!
Now it won't start, but I'm being confident: this thing accepts one more thing every day, not more; so maybe tomorrow, after a reboot (probably unneeded, but there seems to be a real addiction about reboot for these strange animals!), it will run ok, if not I might post the logs...
thanks,
Okay, I'm glad to hear getting somewhere. Just refresh my memory about all this business with sound levels and voice training, I have just installed a new user profile.
This is also prompted by hardware change since I'd installed a new soundcard. The new Hercules news 5.1 is quite a full featured card but it seems input sensitivity was too low and I couldn't get decent training quality.
So after some messing around with the ALSa configurations, I managed to get those soundcard is correctly working with the mixer. I then plugged the microphone into the end sonic soundcard, fired up Dragon NaturallySpeaking has started to create any user profile and run the audio setup process.
Here are a few tricks I forgot to mention:
Although NaturallySpeaking seems to pick up the sound advice and sets the sound capture level to zero as it enters the audio setup it seems unable to bring it back up again. If this happens, let it get to the stage and then use the Linux mixer to set the capture to suitable level. You should then be able to continue with a quality check. On the Hercules card I was not able to score more than 14, with the Sound Blaster end sonic I was able to score 21.
I also encounter some problems which seemed to be more due to Wine than anything else. For example, at one stage I thought it had hung because clicking on buttons had no effect, eventually I remembered having this problem before and getting around it weighs in theor keyboard shortcuts.
In any case, I successfully completed a training and this text is my first attempt at using it. As you can see the quality of the dictation recognition is pretty good. None of this text has been edited with the keyboard afterwards, it was all generated by Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and the any editing done was the occasional command issued through the microphone.
I will now risk all by trying to update wine to see if you remove some of the glitches.
I'll keep you posted, good luck.