Another approach for Dictation

[Cyber Source]

I would recommend using the native Windows OS for Dragon. It was made
for it and will run better. As far as wanting to do everything else in
WIndows land, is not the threat of viruses enough to migrate her for
other things?
  Viruses are my greatest pitch to get my people to use Linux. There is
no way I would use Windows for online stuff anymore, no matter what kind
of anti-virus you might have, just playing the definition update game is
enough to keep your head spinning.
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:15, Asheville Joe wrote:

> At this point, it looks like dictation on Linux isn't going to be
> available as an end user package for quite some time, so I'm looking for
> ideas on how to proceed.  Below, I mention some scientifically wild
> a..ed guesses on what might work.  The things I can think of are beyond
> my level of expertise to implement, but some of you folks might be able
> to do it for me and if that becomes a possibility, we can discuss that
> off list.  This is not a research project.  I need to get something
> working now, and it has to be something an end user can deal with (e.g.
> rebooting between dictating and editing would not be acceptable).  The
> sytem is going to be heavily used for writing material for publication
> and needs to be moderately secure (e.g. no old version wi fi that
> anybody can hack into ( on the Windows side at least)).
> 
> What I want to accomplish is running Dragon Naturally Speaking (or
> another package) on WIN XP/Pro.  I f I stop at that, the natural
> tendency for the user (Rita) will be to want to do everything else in XP
> too and if there's any way around that, I *really* want to avoid it.  So....
> 
> First idea:  Get VMWare (anyone know if plex86 could handle this?) and
> run both XP and RH 9 on the same notebook (a new, fast one).  Then,
> dictate on Windoze and hot key back over to Linux for editing and
> everything else.
> 
> Second idea:  Dedicate a machine to dictating and do everything else on 
> another Linux box  (after transferring the files or accessing them via 
> samba or null modem?).
> This would probably be the easiest - could even transfer files by 
> sneakernet, if necessary, but it would require buying two notebooks and 
> carrying them both around as we travel (and Rita would need to take both 
> of them when she goes anywhere without me).  That's probably a lot more 
> hassle (and expense) than it's worth with batteries to charge and making 
> sure both notebooks are always physically secure, etc.
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Joe

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