Barbara,
Check your computer specs and also check your soundcard and your microphone and report back. You should really have 2 GB of RAM and the soundcards on Dell computers (especially notebooks) are notoriously bad for speech recognition. The microphone that comes in the box should also be considered a back-up mic at best. If you want to have one more go at it you might consider reinstalling the software, creating a new user and after running the audio set up wizard hit “play” instead of finish. Use the exact same soundcard, mic, etc as you did before and listen for any interference on the playback. When you create your user and run the audio set up wizard make sure to speak in the manner and tone you will when you actually work. The mic placement shouldn’t be to close to your mouth and should be off to the corner as opposed to directly in front or DNS may mistake your breath for utterances. Make sure to dictate several sentences at a time as opposed to three or four words at a time. When you bought your software you bought 10 licenses so you might as well try one more time and I’ll help you out with here on the forum.
Brian,
You are using Medical 9.5 so the sky is the limit. You can create commands to do just about anything to automate your workload. The only drawback is learning to use the tools to create these automations. There are several 3rd party add-on programs that have done most of the work for you such as
KnowBrainer 2007 . The advantage in KnowBrainer is that many of the commands have already been built for you and the act of creating your own has been simplified.
KnowBrainer, Inc. Support Staff – Tom Hamilton
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