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Recognition slower in Outlook than in some other applications?
Submitted by Per Haglund on Thu, 01/24/2008 - 14:36.
I am getting increasingly frustrated with Outlook being 'slow' when dictating. As an opening salvo, I used a stopwatch to crudely measure how long it takes from the time I start uttering some command to the time it gets executed.
In Outlook, a simple command like "move left" takes roughly 2 seconds to execute it from the time I start speaking. In Notepad and the dictation box, it takes a little bit more than one second, 1.3 - 1.5s. This difference is enough to disturb my flow.
Does anyone have any thoughts to share on this topic?
Per Haglund wrote: I am
I am getting increasingly frustrated with Outlook being 'slow' when dictating. As an opening salvo, I used a stopwatch to crudely measure how long it takes from the time I start uttering some command to the time it gets executed.
In Outlook, a simple command like "move left" takes roughly 2 seconds to execute it from the time I start speaking. In Notepad and the dictation box, it takes a little bit more than one second, 1.3 - 1.5s. This difference is enough to disturb my flow.
Does anyone have any thoughts to share on this topic?
I have my suspicions. However, there are so many variables that can create this type of situation, it's almost impossible to say with out seeing it exactly what may be the cause. Nevertheless there are some known issues:
1. Antivirus programs that check ingoing and outgoing e-mails (at least some of them, do some internal processing of each e-mail as it is being created. At minimum they are always processing – poor example Norton Auto Protect).
2. If you have a lot of Outlook add-ins, or you are using Outlook 2003, there are known issues with processing speed under these conditions. Even Outlook 2007 has some drawbacks , although I seldom experience the slowdown that you know and I'm using office 2007 with a couple of Outlook add-ins that don't interfere with processing speed. Nevertheless, consider add-ins as a source of possible processing delay.
3. Anything running in the background that has a higher priority and which Windows is constantly accessing can slow down the processing speed and Outlook. For example, if you're using IE 7 and you have the desktop search enabled, when IE is actively indexing, DNS performance in Outlook will slow to a crawl. One of the other background tasks that generally interferes with DNS performance in Outlook, but generally for most any application into which are dictating, is running older versions of Diskeeper in the background that are performing on-the-fly defragmentation. If so, consider upgrading to Diskeeper 2008, which doesn't interfere with DNS at all even when it's processing (defragging).
There may be other causes, but they usually fall into the above 3 categories.
Chuck Runquist
Former Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK & Senior Technical Solutions PM for DNS
"We learn by doing." -- Aristotle
Good starting point, the plot thickens
Thanks for the feedback. I do have Symantec antivirus installed. If it is processing the text in my mail as I am typing it, then that could be a source of delays. It could also be that I am receiving more e-mails than I think, as various filters redirect them away from my inbox before I notice them.
I have add-ins for Google desktop and iTunes, disabled both of them.
I removed the desktop search a while ago, I felt it was affecting performance overall. I found Google desktop to be less intrusive, disabling the indexer did not seem to make any difference.
Interestingly, I just 'tested' the performance in Word and Firefox and it appears to be on par with Outlook.
Commands slow in Microsoft Outlook
I am getting increasingly frustrated with Outlook being 'slow' when dictating. As an opening salvo, I used a stopwatch to crudely measure how long it takes from the time I start uttering some command to the time it gets executed.
If you are using Outlook 2003 or earlier, try using plaintext instead of HTML. You do this in the message window by clicking on the Format menu.
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Outlook 2007 has that option in the "Options" menu. It's now responding as quickly as in notepad
. Tools -> options to set the default behavior
Thanks Martin!
Per Haglund wrote: Outlook
Outlook 2007 has that option in the "Options" menu. It's now responding as quickly as in notepad
. Tools -> options to set the default behavior
Thanks Martin!
I neglected that one, but I never consider plaintext because it significantly limits what I can do with e-mails in Outlook 2007. Nevertheless, it will speed it up, but is the sacrifice worth it? In your case, it may be. In my case it kills too many features that I need.
Chuck Runquist
Former Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK & Senior Technical Solutions PM for DNS
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in. - Bradley's Bromide
Outlook 2007, slowness of
I just switched to Office 2007 and after upscaling to DNS 9.5 things are going very well. One thing I notice about Outlook e-mail is that it is amazingly adaptive. I often write e-mails in Swedish so I enabled Swedish as a (limited support) editing language.
After a couple of weeks use, Outlook started to offer to complete things like days of the week when I write a message in Swedish. I don't flip any switch to cause this -- it just happens. This means that it is scanning my text as I write and deciding what language is being used. There's a whole lot going on there behind the scenes and I don't wonder that it's slower than the 2003 version.
Dan L.