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New MessageVoice control (modified 0 times) wanderer
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Found this voice activation program that works great on the 510, not so well on the 1200. I guess the 510 microphone is better? Free download at http://www.nitrousonline.net/nvf/ . Unlike your wife and kids, you can teach it to do what you say.
04-09-2002 18:38:54

New MessageRE:Voice control (modified 0 times) Dale746
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IBM's Voicetype Simply Speaking Gold works on the Point 510 and it therefore should work on the Stylistic 1200 also.

The "enrollment" for training the software to recognize your voice could take some time, but even with only partial completion of enrollment, voice recognition is very good.

Voicetype Simply Speaking Gold seems to be the highest you can go with the Voicetype products from IBM on the Point 510. I could not get "enrollment" to complete on the Point 510 for ViaVoice 98, ViaVoice 98 won't work (at least not with the Point's built in mic/soundcard).

So, the following versions of IBM Voicetype should also work with the Point 510 because they should have system requirements equal to or lower than Voicetype Simply Speaking Gold (which I KNOW works)

Voicetype Simply Speaking

Voicetype for Windows 3.0

Voice Pilot - Voice Pilot includes a run time version of Voicetype for Windows 3.0 and adds voice navigation (and some neat voice activated applets). IBM licensed voice navigation for its Voicetype products from the company that made Voice Pilot.

Voicetype Dictation (some of these require the special voicetype adapter card, there was a pcmcia version and an isa version of the card). I ordered version 1.32 that has the special pcmcia voicetype adapter card. There are versions of Voicetype Dictation that IBM says will work on a 486 machine but these versions require the VTD adapter card.

It is possible that the pcmcia "voicetype adapter card" from IBM could be a hot commodity, because it might be possible to use this card as a soundcard to get ViaVoice 98 to work on the Point 510 and to get voice control on 486 tablets like the Stylistic 1000.

06-25-2002 10:07:09

New MessageRE:Voice control (modified 0 times) Dale746
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I received what I believe is the first version of Voicetype Dictation for Windows 95 and the pcmcia voicetype adapter card came with the product. I'm going to try this version on the Stylistic 1000.

Here is the description of the PCMCIA Voicetype Dictation Adapter:
"The Voicetype Dictation Adapters are designed specifically for large vocabulary speech-recognition processing. The adapters receive input from a microphone ro line source, digitize the signal, complete a detailed acoustic analysis of the signal, and store the signal in the computer. The adapters can play back the digitized signal to an external speaker. There are three Voicetype Dictation Adapters: one for ps/valuepont or compatible (at-bus, or eisa); one for ps/2 micro channel or micro channel compatible computers; one for computers equipped with a type II pcmcia slot."


Here are the system requirements listed on the box:
IBM compatible personal computer with:
1.44mb disketter or cd-rom drive
one PCMCIA slot (or microchannel/isa slot for other versions)
IBM Voicetype qualified microphone
MIMIMUM 486SX-25MHZ PROCESSOR (486DX-33MHz recommended) Note Pentium performance is included
Minimum 8MB physical RAM, 12MB recommended
minimum 35MB of free hard disk space (an additional 42 MB is used during installation)
SOFTWARE: Windows 3.1 or higher or Windows for Pen Computing 1.0 or higher or Windows 95

Here is link for additional information on the IBM PCMCIA Voicetype Dictation Adapter Card
http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/VLAR-3X9HUG.html?lang=en_US&brand=root&doctype=&subtype=Cat

06-26-2002 11:56:55

New MessageRE:Voice control (modified 0 times) lnspy
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I'm trying to install Simply Speaking Gold on my 1200 (Win95) and keep getting audio control errors. For example, during setup the audio test failed to deliver any sound. The sound system works otherwise. Anybody do this installation successfully or know what the problem might be? Jim
07-14-2002 07:20:19

New MessageRE:Voice control (modified 0 times) Dale746
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The first post in this thread suggests that the quality of the sound card in the ST 1200 may be of a lessor quality to the one in the Point 510. I have ST 1200s but I have not yet tried to use Simply Speaking Gold or Voice Pilot on one of them. The ST1200 uses a Pentium processor compared to the slower processor on the Point 510, but the quality of the sound card seems to be more important than the processor speed for voice control/navigation

I assume you are using the MIC that came with the product? You can go to Windows' recorder and use Windows to set the audio levels for the mic; and hope that this is sufficient for Simply Speaking. Otherwise, if the sound card in the ST 1200 is simply not of a quality comparable to the the Point 510/Soundblaster Soundcard, it may be necessary to use a PCMCIA Soundcard like Wavjammer on the ST 1200.

07-14-2002 08:51:17

New MessageRE:Voice control (modified 0 times) lnspy
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I'm still looking for a software problem. The error messages say things like: speech engine can't find the drivers. Also, the 1200 and 510 have Sounder Blaster Pro compatible cards so the difference probably isn't a lack of quality.
07-15-2002 18:27:25

New MessageRE:Voice control (modified 0 times) Dale746
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You are right, your error is an installation problem, I would do install again.

The problems with the soundcard would be something like "audio levels not detected" or "enrollment" would be unable to recognize speech.

07-15-2002 19:16:19

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