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Compadre™:Interact
v3.0.1 Release Notes
Thank you for choosing Compadre™:Interact
for your instant language translation solution.
System Hardware Requirements:
- Processor:
- Intel Pentium 4 or Pentium M
- 1 GHz or better clock speed
- Operating Systems:
- English version of Microsoft
Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, or
Microsoft Windows XP desktop or Tablet Edition
- RAM:
- Arabic: 1.0 GB to 2.0 GB depending on configuration
- Other languages (e.g. French, Dutch, German): 512 MB
Minimum
- Disk Space:
- 1.5 GB of free disk space
- I/O:
- DVD Reader
- Microphone Connector (one or both):
- 3.5
mm Microphone In & Audio Out Mini-Jack Connectors
- USB
- Noise-Canceling microphone (recommended)
New Features in 3.0.1:
- Improved installation for
Administrator and Limited Users
New Features in 3.0.0:
- Improved speech recognition for both English and foreign
speakers
- New, more intuitive GUI controls
- Improved image editing with the Visualize feature
- Improved New User Wizard
- Introductory videos for all languages including English
- Improved licensing support
- Improved installation
- More robust error handling
- Ability to save log files as rtf/doc types
- Improved documentation including User Guide and Quick
Start Guide
- Improved support including website, FAQ and Release Notes
Bugs fixed in this release:
- A user with limited access permission now has complete
access to
all folders used by the program
- Improved reliability of creating, editing and deleting
voice
profiles
- Quicker transition between languages
- More user friendly alerts
- Better processing of log files
- Better handling of microphone switching
Here are some suggestions for optimal
performance:
- Do not leave the microphone on and unattended for more than
a few
minutes. It will automatically shut down and may be difficult to
restart.
- Plug the microphone in before launching Interact. It is
difficult
for the Interact application to detect and recover from
microphone changes while it's running.
- Speech recognition using the default profile is alright but
not
excellent. We suggest you train a profile for each speaker in their
primary language.
- Use the switch on the microphone to turn it off after each
sentence is spoken. The microphone will pick up ambient noise and try
to translate this, too.
- Speak and translate at most one or two sentences at a time.
- Switching between languages might be rather slow (5-10
sec). This
is dependent on the computer processor speed. We suggest that the
English speaker say and translate several things and then the target
language speaker do the same. If the switch takes longer than 10
seconds, try
clicking on the microphone button. However, resist clicking over and
over. This will make it slower. If it completely hangs, you may need to
re-launch Interact.
If you have any trouble with your
microphone
Be sure to set the Control Panel:Audio
Devices according to these
steps. See also the User Guide
section entitled Getting
Started: Setting Up Your
Microphone: Troubleshooting Devices.
- Click on the Start
menu
- Select Control Panel
- If in Classic View
select Sounds and Audio Devices
- If in Category View
select Sounds, Speech and Audio
Devices and then Sounds and
Audio Devices
- Select the Audio
tab of
the tabbed interface
- Under Sound Recording,
set the default device to your USB choice (e.g. C-Media USB
Headphone Set)
- Under Sound Playback,
set the default device to your computer's internal sound card (e.g. SoundMax HD
Audio 0)
- Warning: do not
select
your USB microphone as your playback device or you will get no
audio playback.
- Uncheck the box labeled: Use
only default devices
- Click the Apply
button
- Click the OK button
Known Bugs
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