The day before Christmas, I think it was, the Windows laptop which I rely on for voice recognition got corrupted by viruses. Mark helped me get it back. We actually used Linux to rescue the hard drive and scan the system. Long story short, we had to reinstall the system off the rescue partition... Or what ever the thing is called.
This morning, I woke up too early and decided to get the voice recognition working again. I did some dumb things. I thought I would write them down. Maybe it will help somebody else.
Internal Microphone Embarrassment
The first thing I did was accidentally train the wrong microphone. I was wearing my Bluetooth as I always do, but what I didn't realize was that the internal microphone on the stupid laptop was picking up my voice not the stupid Bluetooth microphone stuck in my ear. Right below the little "Fn" key are too tiny holes - that is a secret microphone! The internal microphone got consistent low scores on voice-recognition no matter how concisely I spoke into my Bluetooth.
Disabling Internal Microphone
Nobody seems to know how to do this on the Internet. I ended up using a sledgehammer... If you go to the start menu-> my computer... right click... manage... device drivers... sound... and instead of even disabling that guy (I can't remember the name of it now), I just deleted it. This step may not be necessary. The microphone will automatically disable itself if you use the normal microphone port. If I had enabled the USB sound device before disabling the internal microphone, it may have worked.
Enable USB External Andrea Sound
Despite the fact that Dragon NaturallySpeaking lets you choose a USB sound guy, it really doesn't know about it until you tell Windows it is there. I about pulled my hair out. Plug the stupid USB sound device in And then go to my computer... right-click... manage... drivers... and what I had was one of those yellow question mark deals. I was able to install the driver after doing it twice. I also found that if I moved my USB sound guy to another USB port that I had to redo that.
ctfmon.exe
You have to make sure this guy is not running. I forget how I disabled it (next step may do this). Bring up the task manager to see if it is up.
Disable Windows Text Service
I am still having problems with dns getting what I say, but the text not going to my terminal. This may be a cygwin xserver issue but going to try this. controlpanel->regional_and_language->languages->details (button)->advanced->turn off advanced text services. Reboot. I think this is the right way to get rid of ctfmon.exe too.
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