[Athen] [Fwd: Dragon Naturally Speaking training problem]

[Dawn Hunziker]

Hi all,

Any suggestions on this one?  I'm thinking that DNS version 9 would be a 
better choice but thought someone may have run into something similar 
and has suggestions.

Thanks!!

Dawn

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Hi all, anyone have some experience with Dragon Naturally Speaking 
ver. 8?  I just installed it for one of our scientists, who is an 
Israeli with a heavy accent.  He can't get the software to understand 
him at all, the initial training wizard just keeps waiting for him to 
say something it can understand.  The training wizard understands me 
just fine, so I think the software is ok.

His English is good, I suspect the problem is that his words have a 
sibilant hiss due to the accent.  Is there a more hard core training 
method in the software (rather than the initial wizard) that might 
help?  Any other ideas?  The only other thing I can think of is to 
try to have him pause between words, but the manual makes it sound 
like pauses can also cause problems.

Thanks,

Sheri


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Dawn Hunziker
Assistive Technology Coordinator
Disability Resource Center

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