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C H A P T E R 1 7 Troubleshooting
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide 216
Slow performance
Symptom: The performance of Dragon NaturallySpeaking ® is very slow
in general. The computer lags far behind your dictation. Accuracy may
also be very low (less than 80 percent).
Causes: This might be due to other programs competing with Dragon
NaturallySpeaking
® for system resources. Or, your sound signal may be
of poor quality, so that Dragon NaturallySpeaking ® must spend
processing time filtering the noise.
Solutions:
■ Be sure that the microphone element is pointed toward your mouth
(take off the windscreen to check).
■ Reduce or eliminate background noise.
■ See “Testing your sound system” above (see page 211) to check
your microphone and sound card.
■ Turn off other software programs that may be running in the
background, such as appointment reminder programs and antivirus
software, to see if this helps the problem.
In Dragon NaturallySpeaking ® version 6, it is possible to gain speed by creating a
new user and choosing a vocabulary that is smaller than the recommended one. To do
this, create a new user (from the NaturallySpeaking
® menu on the DragonBar, choose
Open/Manage Users, then click New). From the first screen of the New User Wizard that
appears (as shown on page 14), click the Advanced button. In the Advanced dialog box
that appears, from the Vocabulary Size list choose a smaller vocabulary than the
recommended vocabulary size.
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