Preparing for Speech Recognition
Before you can begin working with speech recognition in Word or Office 2003, you must check to make sure that you meet Microsoft's hardware requirements and that your microphone is working properly.
According to Microsoft, the recommended minimum hardware requirements for a computer to run speech recognition well include a Pentium II (or equivalent AMD processor) with 128MB RAM and at least a 400MHz processor. In other words, the requirements for speech are significantly higher than the system requirements for using Word or Office without speech recognition.
In fact, by default, when you install Office, speech features are not installed on systems that do not meet these hardware requirements.
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