The internal components of the Laptop 4 have improved quite a bit. Both the Surface Connect and the USB-C port can be used for power. Too bad.įor now, I guess I'll be dictating when the Surface is functioning as my desktop, but typing when it's not.The Laptop 4 has one USB-C, one USB-A and a 3.5mm headphones port in one side and the Surface Connect port in the other. Manufacturers (with the exception of Apple, and in their case probably only because it's also a cellphone) just don't seem to care about built-in microphones. I may have been doing something wrong, but I doubt it. Playing back a recording, it was pretty easy to see why: not only is the recording volume low, but it's *very* noisy. It was able to pass the volume-setting part of DNS configuration, but it failed the signal::noise test. The bad news (at least from my POV): the built-in microphone is predictably terrible. I even read from some printed text to see if it could keep up with faster dictation, and it had no problem at all. Installed pretty easily, and using my Sennheiser headset mike (which seems to be about the best mike available for DNS) via USB, it gave the usual stunning recognition accuracy, as long as I dictated clearly (the "radio announcer voice" thing). (I have earlier versions, but they're not supposed to play nicely with Win 8.) I was disappointed to read some posts elsewhere (on DNS forums) suggesting that the Pro wouldn't be able to handle Dragon, but since it seemed to alll be just conjecture I bought the download of DNS 12 Home last night anyway. Ive done a *lot* of dictation via Siri everything from notes for a book to almost all of my test messages.) (The fact that Siri dictation-not Siri queries-works so well on my iPhone is one of the things that made me think twice about the Surface. I was very eager to try DNS on my Surface Pro 128, since I've used it for years on all of my desktops and laptops.
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