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Goals by Bekah Splaine and Kim Lanzire, combined with the strong second-half goalkeeping of Ivy League Rookie of the Week Sarah Gervais , lifted Brown (6-0, 1-0 Ivy) to a 2-0 blanking of then-No. 16 Harvard last Saturday.
Brown's goaltending tandem of Mary Jo Markle and Sarah Gervais have proven specially effective. The pair, which has split time equally in net so far this season, have combined to post a miniscule 0.20 goals-against average.
So was I the problem? I talked to Kevin Gervais, who provides tech support for Dragon, and he was mystified. First, he made sure that I had an adequate sound card (check www.naturallyspeaking.com for a list), a minimum of 32 megs of RAM and a 133-MHz or better PC...
An English speaker uses 40 different sounds, called phonemes; the Dragon system used our training session to predict how I would say each of those sounds. Finally, I dumped in a few columns of "vocabulary builder" so the software could learn some of the peculiar phrases I use, such as...
He was right: learning to dictate to the machine was trickier than I had supposed. For instance, I pronounce the article "a" as "uh," but the machine understood it only if I said "ay." Also, Gervais admitted, there was a bug in my version (3.01) of the software that cut...