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2014-08-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/08/2014, Ric Moore wrote: > On 08/21/2014 09:34 PM, Martin Read wrote: >> On 22/08/14 00:49, Ric Moore wrote: >> >>> That's why I go off on a rant once in awhile, that pavucontrol needs to >>> be a pulse depend, or users won't have the tool to setup and adjust >>> pulse with. >> >> It's curr

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-21 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/21/2014 09:34 PM, Martin Read wrote: On 22/08/14 00:49, Ric Moore wrote: That's why I go off on a rant once in awhile, that pavucontrol needs to be a pulse depend, or users won't have the tool to setup and adjust pulse with. It's currently a Suggests; I suggest you file a bug report sug

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-21 Thread Martin Read
On 22/08/14 00:49, Ric Moore wrote: That's why I go off on a rant once in awhile, that pavucontrol needs to be a pulse depend, or users won't have the tool to setup and adjust pulse with. It's currently a Suggests; I suggest you file a bug report suggesting that this should be bumped to Recom

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-21 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/21/2014 05:14 PM, brian wrote: This was the answer, Ric, thanks. What the hell sound level the XFCE 'Mixer' app was adjusting, I have no idea, but pavucontrol worked just fine - now Dragon tells me that I'm too loud. :) That's why I go off on a rant once in awhile, that pavucontrol needs

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-21 Thread brian
On 08/18/2014 02:03 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 08/18/2014 12:46 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: >> On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, brian wrote: >>> Hi all, >> >>> I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but >>> no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-19 Thread brian
On 08/18/2014 12:19 PM, brian wrote: Thanks for the pointers, folks. I'll be working my way through them in the next few days, and will report back. Brian. > Hi all, > > I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but > no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeo

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:03:17PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > I purged my system of Wine sometime back to lessen my tears. We REALLY need > a "Dragon Killer" app for Linux. Ric Check out: FreeSpeech, Julius, Palaver, Simon, and/or Speech-App -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 08/18/2014 12:46 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, brian wrote: Hi all, I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first attempt, so due apologies if this message is

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Mike Kupfer
brian wrote: > My wife has developed a problem with her hands, and can't type more > than a few sentences without severe pain. Ouch. My wife has a similar problem. She's gotten better, but she still needs to use Dragon. > I've got Dragon (V10, which > was supposed to be the most compatible) i

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, brian wrote: > Hi all, > I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but > no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first > attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate. > Has anyone out there m

Re: Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/08/14 12:19 PM, brian wrote: Hi all, I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate. Has anyone out there managed to set up Dragon Naturally S

Anyone got Dragon Naturally Speaking working under Debian Wheezy?

2014-08-18 Thread brian
Hi all, I posted this question to the XFCE users list a couple of days ago but no takers, so I'll try it here. I also got a timeout on the first attempt, so due apologies if this message is a duplicate. Has anyone out there managed to set up Dragon Naturally Speaking to run under WINE? I'm using