To echo and emphasize: Good speech recognition and accuracy REQUIRES one to use "audio setup" on a regular basis (ideally each time one starts up VV). I don't always do that. Accuracy always improves when I do so. On 5/29/03 12:26 PM, "T. Patrick Henebry" <tphenebry at comcast.net> wrote: >> If I go into UserSettings, I see a pop-up w/ "...first voice model" >> selected, and options to add, modify, or rename it ('delete' is >> inactive). I want to COPY that model - make a duplicate - and treat >> them as separate models, even though the hold the same data, much as >> one might duplicate a file & handle the copy as if it was a separate >> document. I want to label one of them LOUD, & set the mic up for >> loud conditions...and label the other QUIET & set the mic up for >> quiet conditions. I would then select one or the other, and work >> with each independently from the other. >> >> To repeat: has anyone tried anything like this - and, if so, how >> did it work out for you? > > Charlie, > > No speech recognition program would allow you to do that. In order to > maintain the best possible accuracy they all are designed so that > microphone levels can be adjusted based on the current conditions at > the time of running the microphone setup so the clearest possible > signal is available for processing by the recognition engine. This > way the best possible signal is guaranteed no matter what voice model > is being used.