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From: daphne@netcom.com (Daphne Gould)
Subject: Re: speech to text
Message-ID: <daphneCvBntn.4tJ@netcom.com>
Sender: Joel Gould
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References: <s942102.1.777875803@ballarat.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 00:24:59 GMT
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In article <s942102.1.777875803@ballarat.edu.au>,
 <s942102@ballarat.edu.au> wrote:
>	A friend of mine is interested in buying speech to text software for 
>a PC (maybe three PC's) and has checked out a  Dragon system which he is 
>not happy with since it uses a specialized (and obsolete) board. Are there 
>any good speech to text systems out there which just use a standard PC 
>sound card, and if so what are the pros and cons ?

Check out Dragon System's latest program: DragonDictate for Windows.  
This product will run on a standard 16-bit sound card (like a Sound 
Blaster 16, Pro Audio Studio or Windows Sound System).  It will also run 
on an IBM ACPA card.

With DragonDictate for Windows, there is a small performance
penalty for using a standard sound card since the program will use the 
Intel processor for the DSP algorithms.  With the ACPA card,
DragonDictate for Windows will off-load the DSP algorithms to the ACPA
card, making the system run a little faster.

Call Dragon for more information:  (617) 965-5200.

Joel Gould
Lead Engineer, DragonDictate for Windows
Dragon Systems
joelg@dragonsys.com

P.S. Please do not mail me at this account; it is my wife's.
