In my experience, there is no way you could force this behavior to show up. I use Dragon 10.1 Pro on Windows XP all day long in the office, and Windows 7 64-bit at home. I see it coming on both systems, but on a very irregular basis. It may not happen for several days, but it can also come up twice within half an hour or less, but rather rarely. It also doesn't make a differnce whether you are dictating into DragonPad, MS Word, or Outlook. The only common denominator, however, and that's for sure, is that there is always doing corrections/editing being involved.

Since the behavior, in my experience, is absolutely identical on both my systems, quite obviously it isn't related to any particular install or software configuration. I even use two different installations of Dragon on both machines (German/Dutch).

Some time ago, we have been discussing this issue on a larger scale in the German Dragon forum that I host (see http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&... for an automated Google translaton if you like).

Judging from this, what does seem to make a difference is the amount of RAM that people are using. In my case, this is 4 GB on the Windows 7 machine, and just 2 GB on the XP machine, which otherwise is supposed to be quite enough and not causing any major issues. Those who have 8 GB, however, didn't report this happening, and everyone involved in that discussion were professional heavy users of Dragon.

Rüdiger

We are pleased to hear our suggestion on USB ports seems to have helped. We did not elaborate, but USB ports in the front of the computer are often connected to the rear controller by unshielded cables. Also, extra USB ports in the rear of a desktop computer can suffer as well if the voltage is not the same as the ports in the main controller. Notebook computers in general do not seem to have a problem but occasionally we troubleshoot one where switching USB ports makes the difference.

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Marty Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
http://www.emicrophones.com

We can verify the accuracy is definitely better with the slider all the way to the right but this isn't a viable option for slower computers. We're using an Intel i7 quad core 965 processor with 12 Gb of RAM and Windows 7 64-bit which means we can't detect any speed difference with the slider set to the far right or to the far left but we can appreciate a slight increase in accuracy.

Lunis Orcutt - NaturallySpeaking Gold Certified BBB Accredited Speech Recognition/Microphone Solutions Provider & Founder of www.KnowBrainer.com/PubForum

I concur with Lunis. In fact, I have very little delay from dictation to display of text even on my Gateway laptop Core2™ Duo, 2 GHz with only 2 GB of RAM (T7200) running DNS 10.1 Medical. On that system the delay is only about 1 second even when dictating 10 or 12 word phrases without pausing.

The only reasons for an increase in latency (delay of the display of text) with the Speed vs. Accuracy slider all the way to the right is a bloated user profile that has not been optimized, leaving DNS active for 6 or 8 hours without closing and reopening your user profile, poor quality microphone/soundcard combinations that made it difficult for DNS to complete the recognition process, or having a severely fragmented hard drive or bloated registry that hasn't been optimized for a long period of time. You can improve performance (decrease latency) to a certain extent by hiding the results box.

If you keep the Speed vs. Accuracy slider all the way to the left (speed) you lose the advantage of the quadgram model. Setting the Speed vs. Accuracy below 50% means that you're losing the benefits of the more accurate N-gram models. If you think you're getting just as good accuracy, your deceiving yourself.

Chuck Runquist
Former Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK & Senior Technical Solutions PM for DNS

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in. - Bradley's Bromide

I'm running a Core i7 with 6GB RAM. The issue seemed to be the Buddy 6G pod, it was working better (and is working better) with the Andrea USB sound pod. So I'm just going to stick with that. Also I'm talking about delays of over a minute sometimes. Usually I just ended up hitting the + key to turn off the microphone after about 10s as this seemed to force recognition (usually with it recognizing what I said).

Derek Morin