Several months back I was using a number of

typing test programs to attempt to measure just how fast Dragon NaturallySpeaking could capture my words.  I had forgotten about it, however I had cranked up to speed on Dragon NaturallySpeaking and decreased the accuracy.

There is actually a slider tool within the options that enables you to do this.  Over the last couple of months I seem to have noticed a slight degradation of my quality and had chalked it up to my laptop getting old or something.  But I came across a tip to adjust the speed and accuracy settings with a slider bar and after making the correction I’m seeing a very big improvement in my accuracy.

When I’m composing words for things that are right, I don’t necessarily need to be able to speak at 160 words per minute, but I do need to be accurate and so I just slid down one notch and I’ve seen a huge improvement.

Here’s how you can do the same thing:

1. Go to your tools menu
2. then you’ll need to select the options item
3. next you’ll need to pick the miscellaneous tab
4. Halfway down the window you will see the option that offers up speed versus accuracy
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5. choose the level that best suits your needs, if you need things to be a little more accurate I’d advise moving one notch at a time and trying it out, and the same goes for trying to get a faster response. 
6. Once you’ve made your selection hit apply and then the okay button and you’re done!

Maven’s in Las Vegas

Next month I will be traveling to Las Vegas for BlogWorld, bloggers from all over the country will be turning out for this particular trade show, which is actually combined release three possibly for different trade shows in the one big trade show.This time around I won’t be staying at Paris Las Vegas, but instead I’ll be splitting my timeat two different hotels, tonight at the Stratosphere and two nights at the Hilton an even balance of economic savings and convenient location.

If you happen to be planning to make the trip to blog world, please feel free to drop me a line, I’d be happy to meet with you at the show.

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Back in August, I started using a program from nuance for Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  The program is supposed to capture information about my speaking habits and later on down the road,  I will upload those files to know wants where they will custom create a new profile for Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

That was back at the end of August and it’s been a month and a half and I’m still running this program collecting data about my speaking habits.  The data collector seems to slow down my system a little bit and in general makes Dragon NaturallySpeaking a little bit less stable. 

I very much want to try the customize Dragon NaturallySpeaking lexicon, but I’m really getting tired of having an unstable program on my computer.  The thing is you have to wait for the program to say that you’re ready and that you’ve collected enough information.  It says that it’s supposed to be 10 hours worth of data, but that seems to be a misnomer.  I’ve been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking everyday for month and a half and I still haven’t hit 10 hours.  How is that possible?

There is no way to manually upload the file yourself, you had to be queued up to do it by Dragon NaturallySpeaking.  If I were using some other tool or product, maybe an air gun or something like that from Ingersoll Rand air tools and they offered a way to customize my tool sets that I could paint a car faster or nail a house together quicker, I’d expect to see and understand a definite into the trial.  A date or something, and with a software program I really wish it had some way to show me just how close or how far away I was as I’m sacrificing efficiency to use their trial program.

So I guess I’m probably give this another couple of weeks and then I’m probably going to turn it off if I don’t hit that magical 10-hour number.  Regardless I’ll keep you posted in case anybody else wants to try this, consider me your Dragon NaturallySpeaking guinea pig.

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