Improving speed, Background noise, Electrical interference – Sony ICD-BP150VTP User Manual

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Improving Accuracy

Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide

172

Improving speed

On all systems, there’s a delay between when you speak and when
Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

types out what you said. Dragon

NaturallySpeaking

®

uses this delay time, plus the time when you’re

talking, to recognize your speech. The faster your processor, the shorter
the delay. Even with a speedy processor, though, Dragon
NaturallySpeaking

®

usually waits until you pause to type out what it

recognized.

Sound quality is at least as important as the processor speed in making
Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

work quickly. If your microphone and sound

card combination make your speech sound fuzzy to the computer or if
they generate background hiss or static, Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

will

have to spend much more time processing your speech to eliminate the
background noise. A clear microphone and sound card combination will
substantially boost speed as well as accuracy. The microphone included
with your software is a high-quality noise-canceling microphone.

Background noise

Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

performs best in a quiet room. In a noisy

office, accuracy may decrease slightly, though the program will still be
useful. For best results, train (or retrain) your user files in the same
environment in which you’ll be dictating.

Electrical interference

In some cases, noise in a building’s electrical wiring will generate static
in your computer’s sound card. Few desktop users encounter this
problem; it’s mostly limited to laptops, which have less isolation of
power source and sound card. If your laptop is performing slowly or
inaccurately, try unplugging it and run it only from battery power to
eliminate possible interference from the building wiring. Also, switch to
a USB microphone, if you are not already using one.

Using Dragon NaturallySpeaking

®

with other

software

When dictating into your word processor with no other programs
running, your computer’s power is dedicated to processing your speech.
If other programs are also open, your computer must divide its
processing power between processing your speech and other tasks. Some

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