From: Ryan Hung (rwhung_at_interchange.ubc.ca)
Date: Sat Mar 06 1999 - 16:46:13 EST
Does anybody know why IBM made it a (supposed) requirement to have a
separate power supply for the mic on previous Thinkpads anyways? I mean, do
mic's draw a lot of power or something? And if so, do the people who've
just gotten the adapter from SCCS find that their battery goes down
significantly with the mic?
Ryan.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maryka [mailto:maryka_at_home.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 1999 1:04 PM
> To: Thinkpad list
> Subject: Re: dictation software on the i series
>
>
> For those who are interested...
>
> I got Dragon Naturally Speaking running on my i1410, although I probably
> spent $30 more than I had to. I just assumed that I would need the
> microphone adapter or battery box to get it to work, and I didn't want
> to go through all the general training just to find out my microphone
> wasn't working well enough - so I bought the battery box and went
> through the training with it. Works really well, and it is as accurate
> as can be expected without much specific vocabulary training yet. But
> when I tried the microphone without the battery box, it seemed to work
> just as well. So I guess the i series may not need the extra boost for
> microphone power. Maybe my next post to this list will be "FS: APS-100
> battery box"....
>
> I am quite happy with it, considering that Dragon doesn't list either my
> soundcard (Yamaha OPL3-SAx) or the i1410 itself as officially compatible
> with Dragon software. And, I'm running it on 32 meg of RAM, although
> the Corel/Dragon software box recommends at least 48. It is quite slow,
> however - it took about twice as long to do the general training as it
> was supposed to - so I am going to buy another 32 meg. Overall, I am
> pretty pleased with this software and the way it runs so far.
>
> Maryka
>
>
> David Talkington wrote:
> >
> > I'll be very interested in how your dictation software performs
> ... and how
> > much RAM it likes. (You'll certainly want to buy all you can
> afford.) I'm
> > considering tinkering with ViaVoice on my 1720.
> >
> > Please post a followup if you have time. -d
> >
>
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