Getting started with speech recognition

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Getting started with speech recognition

You may need to perform the following tasks to use speech recognition.

Install speech recognition

The speech recognition engine is included with Microsoft Office XP, but is not installed by default. You can install the speech recognition engine from within Microsoft Word 2002.

Step-by-step procedure

Set up and position your microphone

Use a good-quality microphone; preferably a headset microphone.

Step-by-step procedure

Train speech recognition

You need to train the speech recognition engine so it will understand your voice. The more you train it, the better it will be at converting speech to text.

Step-by-step procedure

Create a speech profile

A speech profile is created automatically for the first person who trains the speech recognition engine to recognize his or her voice. Anyone else using the same logon account must set up a separate profile before conducting training. In addition, you may want to create separate profiles for different noise environments.

Step-by-step procedure

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