James McKenzie wrote: > Eric S. Johansson wrote: >> James McKenzie wrote: >> >>> Pulseaudio is not supported under Wine and probably will not be. ALSA >>> or OSS are older and more mature. >>> >> from my perspective, all three systems (pulse, alsa, oss) have their significant >> shortcoming especially when dealing with usb audio. in anycase, any ideas on >> what is behind the 2 min delay between speaking and recognizing? in windows, >> delays like that combined with mediocre recognition results are usually an audio >> problem. in this case, I get long delays with good recognition results. >> > > Interesting. This has not been, to my knowledge, reported before. > Roseanne Dimensio works with DNS quite a bit and may be able to provide > pointers about this problem. BTW, how long does DNS 'last' before it > stops working for you? I'm seeing the delays start within the first few minutes of use. sometimes I can make the long delay problem go away briefly by turning the mic on and off. unrelated Q. I want to make natlink work so I can use python for a macro environment. can I set it up so that natlink links to the DNS com interface but uses/runs Linux python? thanks (off to bed for real ths time :-)