Troubleshooting

Speech Recognition Isn't Working on My Computer

In addition to the base system requirements discussed earlier (128MB RAM, 400MHz processor), Word has specific requirements for the versions of Windows that must be present in order for speech recognition to work.

In particular, if you use Windows 2000 and Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express HTML Mail (for example, email formatted as Web pages instead of as text only), you must install Internet Explorer 5.5 with Service Pack 1 or higher.

If you are running the correct versions of Windows and Internet Explorer, check to make sure that speech features have actually been installed. Choose ...

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