Sony ICD-BP150VTP Dragon Naturally Speaking 6 Users Guide - Page 224
Slow performance, Troubleshooting, Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide, Symptom, Causes, Solutions
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CHAPTER 17 Troubleshooting Slow performance Symptom: The performance of Dragon NaturallySpeaking® is very slow in general. The computer lags far behind your dictation. Accuracy may also be very low (less than 80 percent). Causes: This might be due to other programs competing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking® for system resources. Or, your sound signal may be of poor quality, so that Dragon NaturallySpeaking® must spend processing time filtering the noise. Solutions: s Be sure that the microphone element is pointed toward your mouth (take off the windscreen to check). s Reduce or eliminate background noise. s See "Testing your sound system" above (see page 211) to check your microphone and sound card. s Turn off other software programs that may be running in the background, such as appointment reminder programs and antivirus software, to see if this helps the problem. TIP In Dragon NaturallySpeaking® version 6, it is possible to gain speed by creating a new user and choosing a vocabulary that is smaller than the recommended one. To do this, create a new user (from the NaturallySpeaking® menu on the DragonBar, choose Open/Manage Users, then click New). From the first screen of the New User Wizard that appears (as shown on page 14), click the Advanced button. In the Advanced dialog box that appears, from the Vocabulary Size list choose a smaller vocabulary than the recommended vocabulary size. 216 Dragon NaturallySpeaking User's Guide