Can the closed-source binaries be updated nightly?

mcba · Post by **mcba** » 29. Aug 2007, 02:12

Hi folks,

I'm interested in using virtualbox to run Dragon Naturally Speaking, but have discovered from the forums that it doesn't work with 1.4.0.

Now apparently the bug that caused this was fixed back in June, and the Open Source Edition SVN sources should now work. However, I need USB as well to use my microphone, so I can't use the OSE.

It would be wonderful if new closed source binaries could be generated from nightly builds of the latest code.

Is there any other solution?

Regards, Michael

Post by **sandervl** » 29. Aug 2007, 11:56

We thought about this option, but it's quite a lot of work and too many different versions would be floating around.

Wait a few more days for 1.5.0.

mcba · Post by **mcba** » 30. Aug 2007, 00:19

Thank you for the reply, I'm looking forward to 1.5.0! It will be interesting to see whether I can use a USB soundcard with virtualbox.

I guess another option would be to provide the closed-source components as binary libraries that could be linked with the open-source edition. However, I imagine that this could be a lot of work too. Then again, the effort involved in organizing the software in that way could pay dividends later.

mcba · Post by **mcba** » 9. Sep 2007, 00:11

Just to let you know that I now have Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.5 working with WinXP and virtualbox 1.5.0. It works very well indeed (this is with a quad core Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB reserved for virtualbox). USB audio didn't work acceptably (the sound was choppy), so I'm using the ALSA sound system with the USB audio handled by Linux.

I must say that I am extremely impressed with virtualbox. It is easy to use and well-documented. The guestadditions are a great idea. Congratulations to innotek!

Regards, Michael

Kablooie · Post by **Kablooie** » 29. May 2008, 16:36

mcba wrote:Just to let you know that I now have Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.5 working with WinXP and virtualbox 1.5.0. It works very well indeed (this is with a quad core Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB reserved for virtualbox). USB audio didn't work acceptably (the sound was choppy), so I'm using the ALSA sound system with the USB audio handled by Linux.

I must say that I am extremely impressed with virtualbox. It is easy to use and well-documented. The guestadditions are a great idea. Congratulations to innotek!

Regards, Michael

Hi Michael,

I'm wondering how you got this working. I'm probably just missing something simple. I'm trying to use a Logitech USB headset and am finding that the audio output is very choppy.

I've tried selecting all the audio driver options (OSS, ALSA, Pulse) with the same results.

I've noticed something strange with the Ubuntu volume control applet: when I try to adjust the volume slider when the USB Audio device is selected, the slider jumps around, like it wants to continuously reset itself to zero. Also, when I launch the VM (noticed this problem with VMWare and VirtualBox), the gnome mixer-applet2 seems to go crazy and consume 100% CPU (of one of my cores). If I kill the applet I get prompted that it died and can re-load it. This doesn't seem to solve the choppy audio issue, but at least I'm not consuming 100% CPU.

Any theories?

Thanks,
Grant