Betas

What is Empeg's "official" beta test program?
It seems like we are all giving a fair amount of feedback on the current release, but what about new releases?

How does one become a beta tester for Empeg?

I seem to remember some info about the voice recognition software being released as Beta code.

John

I think they have a few alpha testers, but its by invitation only unfortunately. No voice recognition software has been released in beta that i'm aware of, as far as I know, no voice recognition software was ever licensed by empeg.

From Bulletin 16, 14-May-2000

> We have licensed voice recognition software, designed for
> use in environments with a high level of
> background noise.

> Therefore we have decided that voice recognition will
> ship in a downloadable Beta release, possibly when the
> Mark 2 is launched, or perhaps a little later.

??

They tested that voice recognition software and decided that it wouldn't work well enough. They are looking at some other options for voice recognition right now. Plans change. They will still do public betas, but there will be fewer of them, due to the fact that they have an alpha testing team to help work bugs out.

Sean

Besides, Tony will probably get a sneak preview of any new stuff anyway

DiGNAN

Actually there's a new version of that software which appears to work as we originally expected - we're working on the port to empeg at the moment. We're also looking at a competing system.

Rob

Besides, Tony will probably get a sneak preview of any new stuff anyway

Since I'm on the alpha team, yes, I get to test their alpha builds. However, since I own a Mark1, an alpha build of the Voice Recognition software wouldn't be very useful to me.

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Tony Fabris

Well if Tony can't beta test VR I could probably set aside some time ;-)

Yes I have the optional Wife VR system for my Mark 1 - but with the obvious
draw backs

PaulH

Same here Paul. I get about the same accuracy as I did with Dragon Dictate.

"no, no, no, Press * then DNPP, not CD-MD CH then DNPP"

Very similar to: "Correct that..."

-Trevor

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