[Bug 63352] Re: Creative labs X-Fi sound card unsupported

[Susan Cragin]

The accessibility issue comes with running speech recognition software, particularly Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard, which works through Wine. DNS is used by those with RMI, although more and more people are using it to avoid RMI, or just to work quickly. 
Speech recognition is a hard thing for a machine to do. It requires tremendous effort by all the hardware and software.  
To get accurate speech recognition, I need an excellent soundcard and an excellent microphone. (Plus a fast processor and lots of RAM.)
USB devices produce not-good-enough sound. DNS has a test, and my USB scores about 23, whereas my internal HDA-Intel card gives me 26, which is much better, even though the recorded sound quality seems terrible when I just listen to it. 
It is frustrating convincing people how important sound quality is, because DNS's advertising is misleading. In an effort to sell the product, they like to claim that the cheap microphone that comes with it is adequate, and that the quality of the soundcard is not as important as it is. 
I have a SoundBlaster X-fi card, and I wish it worked because I spent money on it and because I know it would make DNS run much better.

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Creative labs X-Fi sound card unsupported
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