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Hardware recommendations-need current update
Submitted by Lee Wagner on Sun, 02/11/2007 - 19:46.
I am building a new computer from scratch. One goal is to have absolutely ideal hardware for speech recognition, preferably with those conditions holding true for at least 18 months after build date. I intend to build a small desktop mounted on a small cart that will move room to room, good quality wireless. I am looking at Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2G of RAM. Leaning towards 1066MHz front end bus speed. Need ideas on size of L2 cache, any other processor/motherboard/chipset details. Do not know where things stand Feb 07 re: specific soundcard recommendations. Have purchased Dragon 9 Medical, and plan to have XP as operating system. The computer will also run an electronic medical record with xray images, and I will be using a fairly high level video card for that.
Microphone recommendations are well covered on this site, but can find no computer hardware discussions since summer 2006. Would anyone care to offer an opinion? Thank you very much for any help! This is a very informative site.
Suggest you check out
Suggest you check out KnowBrainer's post in this thread:
http://www.speechcomputing.com/node/1187
My question is exactly what you need in the way of a vid card? If you don't have a display program that uses the latest instruction sets in the video cards, then something like a high line Matrox might be your best bet. However, whoever is providing that software would be best placed to give you a recommendation. Also, you might want to look into multi-display capabilites -- one for your xray images and another for everything else.
BTW, if the system above turns out not to be good enough for you, I'll give it a good home plus a signed, hand-written note asking the IRS to treat you gently -- you can ask for any signature you like
Bruce
Thank you for responding,
Thank you for responding, Bruce. Actually, I think the video card needs will not be very demanding. Everything I will be looking at will be 2 dimensional images, and most are just scanned documents. Some are xray images and patient photographs, but I seem to get adequate resolution even with the integrated image processing I have on my current Pentium 4 Dell Optiplex
I am in a college course
I am in a college course that is offered as an alternative to stenography where we use voice recognition to caption and provide CART services. Suggestions for the class are:
XP Pro
2 gigs RAM
At least 2 ghz processor (many are using Core Duo)
Fast hard drive (we may switch over to external USB drives)
Not a Dell (nothing but problems for some reason
...for whatever it's worth to you.
Video card is not as important, but it's recommended to have vram built into it so it doesn't take system RAM away from your processes.
This seems like a very
This seems like a very helpful response. I tend to think of equipment suggested for a college course as being budget-conscious. The fact that many of your fellow students have chosen an Intel Core Duo processor (not cheap), makes me think that processor speed and power is important.
There is a site for purchasing computer components called www.newegg.com. A key good feature of the site are the many reviews by people who have purchased the particular component. Many of these seem to be from computer game enthusiasts, who seem to need a lot of speed and power to their components to perform well with the games. However, there was one comment from a user who pointed out that, although he was not a gamer, he did use Dragon Naturally Speaking and therefore made very heavy demands on his computer. That comment really attracted my attention. I had previously been thinking that a "better than average" computer was good enough to have Dragon run at peak performance. Now I'm even a bit more committed to making an optimal machine for Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.0 medical.
Here's what I've committed to so far:
Intel 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Dual processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82....
Intel motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...
2 G memory: http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpo...
Hitachi 160G Internal Hard Drive, 8Mb Cache: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...
Sennheiser ME3 microphone. I am still a bit fuzzy on whether to use the USB configuration I see mentioned, or whether to focus on getting a good sound card. Will have to research a bit more.
Thanks for the help!
Lee Wagner
USB is easier, more
USB is easier, more convenient, even if you have an internal soundcard. NewEgg is pretty good, and you're right that gamers tend to offer the most comments, although sometimes the tenor makes me wonder if they've graduated from middle school yet
Rather than purchasing from
Rather than purchasing from vendors like New Egg (who do nothing but sell computer peripherals), why not consider supporting the vendors who support you on this forum and will continue to support you when you have additional questions, like www.emicrophones.com. The fine folks at New Egg are not going to be able to answer any questions after you make your purchase either.
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That seems like a pretty
That seems like a pretty fair idea. Actually, I did purchase from www.emicrophones.com, so I'm glad I did the right thing.
Any time a person is new to a site, it can be a little difficult to see the "big picture" that is probably obvious to old hands. On one of my first times browsing the site, I did come across a request to "support the vendors who support you on this forum". However, when I started to search around to see who those vendors were, I had no way to tell. I still don't know. I see emicrophones mentioned frequently, and I've seen this "KnowBrainer" logo a number of times, but it's hard for a newbie to understand what these entities are. Is there a page on this site that lists the supporting vendors?
Lee Wagner wrote: Is there
Is there a page on this site that lists the supporting vendors?
In short, no. This site is not run by vendors, but there are many SR vendors that voluntarily participate in answering questions here. So the best way to find out who is participating here is to read the messages they leave. Most of them have a signature at the end of their messages telling of their website.
Thank you. I did order the
Thank you. I did order the USB unit, figuring that I'd be all set even if I used another computer.