I'm disabled and use speech recognition. I've been running Win XP in VM Ware workstation and using speech recognition in that environment rather successfully. It's faster and more stable than what you get with native Windows.
I was interested in trying virtual box for the same application because, disabled people don't have a lot of money and it would be nice to give them a good working environment for not a lot of money, energy or time. Remember, if your hands hurt all the time, it saps your energy and you find yourself doing something else rather than straining your hands. if you are installing Windows fresh into virtual box, it's a very nice user experience and something most hand disabled people can work with. The big problem is most of us use USB microphones and any distortion in the audio stream ruins recognition. as I discovered last night, and much to my dismay, audio via USB is choppy. Import or output, it sounds the same. It gets worse with disk I/O although that might be my laptop interfering somewhat as well. on my machine, I was able to reproduce the problem without fail. It was clearly audible on audio output (play music through Windows media player). through some of the tools of NaturallySpeaking, I could hear the recorded audio input sound choppy as well. I know USB is complex and can be difficult to work with. I'm hoping someone can fix this problem so we can have an option for virtual machines. thanks --- eric _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
