Speech technology - WORD 2003

[Guest]

I use the speech option in WORD 2003. It slows my system down and sometimes
actually closes my files. My computer is Pentium 4 3.0 GHZ with 500 Ram.
Office 2003

Please help

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

More ram, speech has a lot of overhead.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:51:32 -0400, "Rick \"Nutcase\"

|More ram, speech has a lot of overhead.
1GB is Ok 4 Dragon VR
HTH-Larry
Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for helping

I wanted also to buy a microphone with a USB connection. My local computer
supplierr suggested a USB Bluetooth conncection. Wil this alos help?.

 

[Bob I]

It won't replace the benefit of adding RAM.

Thanks for helping

I wanted also to buy a microphone with a USB connection. My local computer
supplierr suggested a USB Bluetooth conncection. Wil this alos help?.

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[Guest]

Hmmm. Microsoft Speech doesn't use that much RAM. It uses far less than
Dragon Naturally Speaking. 512MB should be OK assuming there are not a lot
of other applications open at the same time. Is it just Word and Speech
running when you see the problem?

Open task manager and have a look at how much memory is being used total.
Or if you have XP professional, add the Page Faults column. Programs which
do this a lot slow down your computer a lot. My own guess is that you have
some application which is doing this. Find the application name which is
taking up page faults, then do a search in Windows Explorer for a program
with the same name. When you find it, consider renamed it from "process.exe"
to "process2.exe".

I just found that Sony Picture program (that came with Video Camera) was
causing my laptop to slow down horrendously, and I never used it. It just
ran each time I started my computer... Worth a try, before you spend $100 on
another 512MB of RAM.

PS More RAM will always speed you up a little. I'm just suggesting a few
things so you can figure out if it is necessary.