RE: Speech Recognition in Vista (and XP)

"Mark Conrad" wrote:

> Using theBoom with Vista Speech was not all that great,
> many errors due to noise. Have not figured out why the
> loss in accuracy yet. In general, Vista Speech (WSR)
> seems much less tolerant of noise than Dragon, at least
> in my experience.

I use theBoom with my Vista OS Toshibe notebook computer using WSR and not
Dragon. Many of the places I dictate are quite noisy and there is no
background noise picked up. I make sure to have theBoom microphone element
1/2 inch from my mouth and I run, "Set up microphone" utility to take into
account my voice levels and the background noise levels.

If you would not mind, please contact me through the Contact Us for our web
site:
http://www.mymsspeech.com/contact_us.asp

I have some SR items I'd like you to try out.

Thanks,
Marty

"Mark Conrad" wrote:

> FWIW, figure you got a raw deal from Lunis Orcutt in
> his KB money making venue, which is one reason I never
> joined his forum.

Thanks. Quite a few people feel the same way. I understood what he did from
a business point of view. However, he told people I was insulting customers.
The only one being insulted was Lunis because of his repeated efforts to
distort the truth.

> WSR seems to be _much_ more affected by breathing
> noises and other extraneous noises than Dragon is.
>
> Not just me, others have reported similar observations.

Yes. I have heard several others mention this. The only problem in this
regard I have is
"Sleeping" mode as the microphone seems to Start Listening way to easily.
One thing you can try is to go into the Properties and then Levels for
theBoom Recording Device. Try lowering the microphone level to about 25% and
see if that helps?

> Regarding your kind contact offer, I prefer to preserve my
> anonymity; I have burned too many bridges behind me, have
> too much to lose, so decline your offer. Hope you do not take
> this the wrong way.

No problem. I was going to give you a NFR copy of our Toolkit with no
strings attached.

Marty