Re: Running Windows on Mac

In article <170720091137385340%none-of@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark
Conrad <none-of@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... a bunch of senile
raving and ranting...

First things first, I want to thank all here for a very
enlightening in-depth thread.

On my side of the pond, seldom is any subject like
running Windows on a Mac discussed in
rational detail.

Usually such threads in the colonies degrade to heated
posts about "My OS is better than your OS", without
getting into the nitty-gritty as to *why* one is better
than the other, or the technical mechanisms
behind each OS.



Now, in the spirit of sticking to the main thread topic
about running Windows on a Mac, pros and cons etc.,
I threw in the prospect of Speech Recognition (SR)
with the following bass-ackwards remark:

All that said, I did get version 1.5.2 of MacSpeech to
handle that complex medical dictation example in my
previous post without _any_ mistakes!

In my senility, I referred to "my previous post".

Inexcusable, I hate it when someone else does that,
forcing me to dig around in their previous posts,
yet I here was guilty of doing the same thing!

It is closing the barn door after the horse is gone,
but allow me to partially remedy my inconsiderate
mistake:

All that said, I did get version 1.5.2 of MacSpeech to
handle that complex medical dictation example in my
previous post without _any_ mistakes!

Was using the $200 version of MacSpeech, initially
trained for ten minutes after installation into my
80 GB Mac OS 10.5.7 partition of a MacBook Pro,
a 2-year old model with 4 GB ram.

Below is the 100% accurate text result when I spoke
this into the Mac, which I _should_ have
included with my remark about the
"complex medical dictation".

.......start example........example.......example.......

RESULTS: The lesions treated with
endoscope-assisted microsurgery comprised
205 tumors, 53 aneurysms, 85 cysts, and 36
neurovascular compression syndromes.
89 of these lesions where localized
in the ventricular system, 242 in the
subarachnoid space or intracerebral, and 49
in the sella. Endoscope-assisted
microsurgery was advantageous to reduce the
size and the operation-related tissue
trauma of approaches to lesions within the
ventricular system, in the brain tissue as
well as in the subarachnoid space at the
base of the brain. Using less retraction
during tumor removal, the visual control of
retrosellar, endosellar, retroclival, and
infratentorial structures was improved.
Video-endoscope instrumentation was
especially helpful during procedures in the
posterior cranial fossa and at the
craniocervical junction. It allowed for
inspection of channels and hidden
structures (e.g., the internal auditory
meatus, the ventral surface of the brain
stem, the ventral aspect of root entry
zones of cranial nerves, the content of the
foramen magnum, and the upper cervical
canal), both without retraction and without
resection of dura and bone edges. Endoscope
instrumentation during surgery for large or
giant aneurysms was useful to dissect
perforators on the back side of the
aneurysms and to control the completeness
of clipping.

..........end example........example........example...


Only sneaky thing I did above was to add all the
individual medical words to the default MacSpeech
vocabulary, to similate a well-trained "MacSpeech"
which had been used by a physician for a long time.

Adding and training these "medical words" like for
example "craniocervical" took me roughly an hour.

Prior to me adding the individual medical words,
the $200 MacSpeech had only ten minutes of
training, after installation.

Keep in mind anyone can do the same thing with
the $200 standard MacSpeech...

....on any other specialized subject which is
capable of being "talked about".

If your interest is origami, you could add any words
likely to be used when dictating speech about
the design and construction
of paper airplanes.

Likewise basket weaving, or design of anti-matter
propulsion engines for space travel, or gabbing
about more humble subjects like Mac video.




Okay, now slight change of focus, while still on the
main topic of running Windows on a Mac.

I admit, one sided, but I have mentioned the benefits
of running Windows versions of speech recognition
in other posts here, such as being able to use a digital
recorder instead of being tied to a computer.

Kicked $200 MacSpeech out of my Mac, installed
$600 MacSpeech Medical, trained it this time
for about 20 minutes.

Same result using a different test example,
namely 100% accurate text; _no_ text
correction of any kind required.

Below is the 100% accurate text result when I spoke
this particular example into the Mac:



.......start example........example.......example.......

Spinal Cord - Radiation Damage

The post-irradiation lower motor neuron syndrome
neuronopathy or radiculopathy?

Bowen J, Gregory R, Squier M, Donaghy M.

Department of Clinical Neurology, Radcliffe
Infirmary, Oxford, UK.

It is not known whether the post-irradiation lower
motor neuron syndrome results from radiation
damage to motor neuron cell bodies or from damage
to the nerve roots of the cauda equina. ... The first
reported neuropathological study... was performed
inone patient who died. This showed a
radiation-induced vasculopathy of the proximal
spinal roots, with preservation of motor neuronal
cell bodies and spinal cord architecture. These
clinical, radiological, neurophysiological and
pathological findings all point to a predominantly,
but not exclusively, motor radiculopathy affecting
the irradiated portion of the cauda equina proximal
to the dorsal root ganglia. Radiation exposure
exceeded 40 Gy both in our series and in previous
reports. The natural history of this disorder is one
of relentless deterioration occasionally punctuated
by 1-2-year periods of stability. Post-irradiation
lumbosacral radiculopathy is a more accurate name
for this condition.

..........end example........example........example...


Only sneaky thing I did before speaking in the above
example was to add to the dictionary the names,
such as: Squier M

....which I knew MacSpeech Medical would not have,
unless I added them somehow.

Total time preparing for the "test" was about a half
hour less than when I was using the $200 standard
version of MacSpeech, because after all this is the
high-priced medical version, so it already has most
all of the medical words in its default dictionary.


IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER -
I am of the opinion that anyone else can get the same
results as I do, using these Mac and Windows speech
recognition apps, but ONLY if they play with them
long enough to learn all the pitfalls, plus the
workarounds to avoid them.

Is it worth the hassle of learning?

Depends on how much you _need_ the added
productivity that this technology is capable
of providing.

Mark-
.

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