Speech recognition requirements
To use speech recognition, you need the following hardware and software components:
- A good-quality close talk headset microphone connected to a sound card or USB port.
- A 400 megahertz (MHz) or faster computer with 128 megabytes (MB) of memory.
- Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
- Windows 98 or later, or Windows NT 4.0 or later.
- The speech recognition engine must be installed. It is available with Microsoft Office XP, but may not have been installed. Click Related Topics for information about installing it.