Comments on: Scansoft Dragon naturally Speaking 8 and Win 2000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/scansoft-dragon-naturally-speaking-8-and-win-2000/ Fri, 24 May 2013 02:38:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: poppaman http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/scansoft-dragon-naturally-speaking-8-and-win-2000/#comment-40287 poppaman Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:05:59 +0000 #comment-40287 I concur w/Howard2nd…

At one former position with a content creation company, we had migrated to Win2K, and only then found out that some of our electronic learning (“e-learning”) systems would not work on W2K without a major re-write, and then the results were “twitchy” at best. A selective ugrade (of necessary machines) to WinXP SP1 solved the problem without program re-writes…

Win2K does not have the multimedia capabilities of WinXP: this is by design. The multimedia O/S back in 2000 was SUPPOSED to be Windows Millenium Edition….

Remember – Windows 2000 is WinNT 5.0; Windows XP is WinNT 5.1 (check the versions at a command prompt…). With some exceptions for older programs, WinXP will do everything Win2K will do…..

]]> By: howard2nd http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/scansoft-dragon-naturally-speaking-8-and-win-2000/#comment-40288 howard2nd Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:01:28 +0000 #comment-40288 Problem is NOT the install. It is the microphone/speech control applet in control panel. Ignore ‘Dragon’ for the moment. Only when you can consistently record from mic to .wav using ‘Windows Sound Recorder’ can you go back to ‘Dragon’. Then you will find the text is no longer greyed out. ‘Dragon’ cannot find the mic in your current setup on 2000.

Best thought – next weekend get a good backup, blow it all away, install XP Pro AND all the patches, a good anti-virus, a good anti-spyware, and move on. 2000 has nothing to keep you and XP does a lot better at things like ‘Dragon’.

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