Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?
On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, brian wrote:
> Hi all,
> I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but
> no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first
> attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate.
> Has anyone out there managed to set up Dragon Naturally Speaking to
> run under WINE? I'm using Debian 7.6 multihome, with XFCE from the
> Wheezy repos, which means v4.8.
> My wife has developed a problem with her hands, and can't type more
> than a few sentences without severe pain. I've got Dragon (V10, which
> was supposed to be the most compatible) installed, but configuring it
> is a problem because you have to almost yell down the microphone to
> get the sound to register when training it. I can get it to work but
> my wife is (much!) quieter-spoken than I am, and it just will not work
> for her.
> I've checked the mixer settings, I have the microphone gain boosted to
> maximum. We're using a USB microphone, but I could go back to an old
> 4mil one connected into the sound jack if USB could be the problem.
> Her PC is a bog-standard eMachines/Wal-Mart job, so nothing fancy,
> sound is off the motherboard, no added cards. There should be enough
> CPU power there, though, 2.3 GHz dual core with 3GB of RAM.
> Any ideas very gratefully received, I just don't know what else to
> try. The software obviously works, but it just tells me that the
> volume is too low when Pat tries to train it.
Not that this is answering your Dragon-related question.
However it may be worth a look
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arora/RSI.html
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