Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?
On 08/18/2014 02:03 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 08/18/2014 12:46 PM, Rusi Mody wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> While your wife is attempting to use Dragon, open pavucontrol and
> click on the input tab. (assuming you have already set up your audio
> system and wine correctly) and you should see the audio indicator
> flicker as she speaks. You can adjust the input volume there. If it's
> already set the highest, then try alsa mixer to see if the gain
> control is off and the volume level set to 90%.
>
> I purged my system of Wine sometime back to lessen my tears. We REALLY
> need a "Dragon Killer" app for Linux. Ric
>
>
This was the answer, Ric, thanks. What the hell sound level the XFCE
'Mixer' app was adjusting, I have no idea, but pavucontrol worked just
fine - now Dragon tells me that I'm too loud. :)
Brian.
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