Re: Mac speech programs
- From: Batman <kerpow-biff-oof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:03:29 -0500
In article <271020081728324821%star@xxxxxxx>, Davoud <star@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Davoud:
2. MacSpeech Dictate is the only option we have that runs under the Mac
OS. A Mac user who wants or needs accurate speech recognition and who
has a sufficiently powerful Intel Mac will install Windows and buy
Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS). If she does not have the most powerful
of Mac Pro's with a many GB of RAM (I don't know how many, only that it
would take many) she will run DNS by booting into Windows, and not
under emulation via Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion.
Batman:
Booting into Windows via BootCamp? Is that the best way or is it better
to have 2 hard drives with OS X on one and Windows on another? And
other than Parallels, is there any way of running them together without
it being atrociously slow?
Davoud
That would still be using Bootcamp to prepare the second drive, though
whether saying that Windows runs "via" or "under" Bootcamp. Bootcamp
partitions a drive and installs drivers, then it is out of the picture,
except as an ordinary Windows utility that looks for driver updates and
sets the startup drive. You can't take any old drive, install Windows
on it apart from the Mac OS, plug it into a Mac and have it work; you
need the Mac drivers that Bootcamp installs.
That's interesting...once I bought a notebook hard drive (it was from a
PC notebook) and plugged it in to install OS X, on a Mini. Low and
behold, the thing booted up in XP. And this happened with a full size
drive as well....I guess the size of the drive is immaterial. I wonder
how often one can plug in a hard drive from a Windows machine into an
Intel Mac and it runs the previous version of Windows. I didn't check
it to see if there were any problems running it though.
Since I run Windows on MacBook Pro's (two of 'em), running it from a
second HD is not convenient for me; I don't usually carry external
backup drives with me in my little astronomical observatory, which is
the place I'm most likely to run Windows. As for atrociously slow,
"slow" is highly subjective; my slow might be your fast, or at least
acceptable, and vice-versa. Speech recognition software is
power-hungry. For my purposes the performance of Dragon Naturally
Speaking is marginal under VMWare Fusion, while some less demanding
programs run at a perfectly acceptable rate. That's my subjective
judgement.
Thanks...on an unrelated note, I noticed more and more people uploading
astronomy (moon and planets mostly though there are some of M42) videos
on Youtube from their webcams hooked up to their scopes. I think this
will introduce more and more people into astronomy.
.
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