Re: Dragon Question

From: Su (._at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:57:25 -0600

"Karen C" <kcunnin502@aol.com> wrote in message
news:39tqggF67klm7U1@individual.net...
>>> Not to worry; I'm not blaming it all on you <g>.

Thanks goodness. I always tend to get myself in trouble here.

>>> No, you didn't say it was a MUST. But I believe you'd recommended
>>> Knowbrainer and e-microphones, and folks in both places raved about it,
>>> so I figured it must be a good bet.

Knowbrainer is really technical, so you have to wade through what benefits
you. But there are a lot of doctors in there. I just wish Barbara Grow was
still monitoring MT Meeting Place, but she's not. She really knew the best
when it came to VR for MT.

> Well, it helps to know I've got a brother who would take the mike <g>, but
> I
> do plan on getting serious with it. I have osteoarthritis and
> hypothyroidism, so I'm figuring I need to get a game plan in place to
> relieve the hands.

It'll help for sure, but don't expect too much of the product. If you're an
extremely high producer to begin with (350+ lph) you're not going to do much
better.

>> BTW, did you create a single user or did you break things down into
>> accounts/specialties?
>
> I'm doing more LT than MT these days (only one MT account left). Even so,
> I guess I should consider breaking my LT accounts into different users?

Wanna chat e-mail on this? I don't want to clog up this forum. I can take
you step by step through the process.

> That's why I rationalized going ahead and getting the best mike (aside
> from
> being able to dump it on brother, if necessary). I figured the time
> factor
> was the most important aspect of what I was trying to do and that the new
> mike would pay for itself in time saved--eventually.

As long as you have a DNS-recommended sound card and you are careful how you
dictate, there's no reason you can't hit 96-97% accuracy from the get go. A
lot depends upon how much you still need to add to the vocabulary. There's
also the issue of DNS recognizing what word fits in where (to, too, two).

> I wasn't expecting to be able to run with DNS right out of the box, but I
> figured surely I could
> do better than how I did after a few hours of tinkering with it. Had I
> not
> read comments here and in other groups, I'd have probably gotten more
> disgusted and thrown it out after not too many more hours--simply because
> the mike that comes with it is garbage, IMO. The short training and test
> session I had the other night, with congestion, tells me I made the right
> decision.

It's the right decision for some but not for others. YMMV, I suppose. I
started using it again out of necessity (broken finger). In your situation,
as you become more proficient you will probably extend your years in the
business.

> I figured I'd keep the files I did with congestion separate, as you'd
> suggested. Will be sure to start fresh when I get my voice back.

Oh, make sure that once you create a new user you back up the files to at
least two locations. If you can burn to a CD, then do it. And then there's
the issue of the Get/Put Words ... Importing/Exporting with pronounciations
...

... like I said, let's chat e-mail.

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