After finally joining the Bluetooth phone world with my Nokia 6102i, I was able to obtain a Plantronics Explorer 320 Bluetooth headset for it. It sounds pretty good with the cell phone.

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[Dragon on the cheap is a series of articles about how to achieve just about the highest level of voice recognition, using high-quality, low-cost equipment and approaches. This article features a $9 USB sound adapter from, no surprise, eBay.]

[Dragon on the cheap is a series of articles about how to achieve just about the highest level of voice recognition, using high-quality, low-cost equipment and approaches. This article tackles how to acquire an effective, powerful, high and computer for not much money.]

I have just purchased an EYE-T external back-up disk, at a very reasonable cost, that is 3" x 5" x ½". It easily fits into one's pocket. It uses a laptop hard disk, and can be any size that is available. The one I purchased is 60 Gb. It uses a USB 2 port for the data transfer, and another USB port for its power. It is extremely quick, and more than matches the mains powered external USB hard disk that I also have.

I went ahead and started a new thread as I (and others) thought it be more appropriate.

Perhaps we ought to start a separate thread, however could you be a little more specific about this "bunch of complaints" regarding the VXI BlueParrot headset. I purchased one just over a month ago and the thing that is driving me crazy is that every morning I have to spend between 2 and 15 minutes before it will start working.

I finally faced the reality that my good old Andrea mike was getting noisy and ordered a Sennheiser ME3 with USB interface. WOW! WHAT A DIFFERENCE! I usually cruise along translating at about a thousand words an hour. I just finished a piece of 2700+ words in just over 80 minutes with a total of about three misrecognitions. I'd like the mike to be positioned to my left, but I guess I can fiddle with it a little. I get a s/n ratio of 25.

I just purchased a Notebook riser called "Notepal" by Cooler Master which has built into it 2 fans controlled by heat sensors and the power comes through the USB port (with an outlet USB port built in).

Basically the fans draw the heat from the bottom of the Notebook. As a result, I have noted that the computer is much cooler, and its internal fan does not run as often as it did before using this riser.

It is made from brushed aluminium, but is too heavy to be portable, but is very useful when using a Notebook in, for example, an office for any protracted periods.

It should be available from any good computer store, such as CompUSA, and in the UK or Ireland in PC World.

Greetings from Research Lab Inc. We are pleased to inform you that we have recently released Embedded Speech Recognition using LVCSR based on ISIP research, Embedded Speaker Verification, Embedded Speech Synthesis based on Festival Research. Detailed documentation is mentioned here.

http://www.research-lab.com/embedded.htm

Evaluation Windows CE downloads are available on the mentioned link