Re: Drawbacks of Using Dragon on a Mac

Mark Conrad wrote:

RW <spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

What type of mics work best?

Short answer is to use the headset that is included free, however buy an optional $20 USB "soundpod" to bypass the Macs regular internal soundcard.

The Andrea mike that came with ViaVoice goes through the USB port.
Worked well if the room was silent, i.e., the furnace, water heater,
washer, and dryer idle. :-)

Unfortunately now, my dictation has to compete with the fans on
a Linux tower and a FreeBSD tower less than three feet away.
(One's our extra disk space, the other our DNS server and web proxy)


There are _true_ noise canceling mic's, the kind that actually pick up the background noise, then electronically cancel out that noise.

It helps if the initial training setup is done with the SAME noise
spectrum that will occur during dictation.

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Wes Groleau

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