Martin,
At least for some clients, might it run off a chair battery?
spk2wrt@edc.org wrote:
>
> The search for a very light speech recognition notebook is far from over. I
> have been putting the Sony PCG-505FX through its paces. Encouraged by its
> 266Mhx processor, 4 gig HD and 64 megs of RAM, small footprint and 3lb.
> weight. Unfortunately the soundchip is utterly useless. It should have a
> noise-to-signal ratio rather than a signal-to-noise ratio. I am absolutely
> sure that Thomas Edison's first attempt at recording produced far better
results
> than this computer. This a real disappointment from an audio company like
> Sony.
>
> I then tried a PCMCIA WaveJammer soundcard. After trying a number of
> microphones the only one that began to produce decent results was the Shure
> HW505. I was finally able to train up Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional
> Edition and was getting quite nice recognition results while plugged in to AC
> power. I then attempted to test this unit under a fully charged battery. The
> display immediately dimmed and the any hope of either performance or
> recognition went right out the window. Apparently the battery is not producing
> any where near the same current that the AC does. When the current drops the
> computer becomes so sluggish it is useless. I have observed this problem even
> when the Wavejammer PCMCIA card is not installed in the computer. It is my
> guess that in order to get any time out of the extremely small battery that
> they use that they cut the current down rendering this computer virtually
> useless. It is possible that this unit may perform better with the unavailable
> larger capacity battery. I consider this computer while under battery;
> power-starved and well outside the window of performance necessary to support
> speech recognition.
>
> Marty Tibor
> martytib@synapseadaptive.com
> 1 Stop Speech Recognition and Adaptive Technology Synapse
> 3095 Kerner Blvd., Suite S, San Rafael, CA 94901
> toll-free 888-285-9988
>
> http://www.synapseadaptive.com
> Providers of adaptive and assistive technology solutions.
>
> http://www.unixspeech.com
> UNIX, mainframe and Mac speech recognition
>
> http://www.synapseadaptive.com/joel/default.htm
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