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speech recognition
I downloaded trial version of Offce 2003. is speech recognition available iin
Microsoft Word in it, I searched the help and went to Install and train speech recognition through Word, it told me that i should follow these steps. Open Word. On the Tools menu, click Speech. You're asked if you want to install the feature. Click Yes. After the installation is complete, click Next to train speech recognition. but when I do it , i get a message ' this requires 400 MHz computer and 128 MB memory' and thats all I have windows xp and cpu info is Maximum Speed 800 MHz Current Speed 450 MHz any help will be appreciated. thanks |
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G'Day Nemo,
The feature(s) you refer to are NOT part of Office or Word, but of Windows Xp itself. [If any of the following steps fails, search WINDOWS XP "Help and Support" (StartHelp and Support) for "text to speech" - see the article on "Text to speech overview".] Right-click the (Windows) Task bar, point to "Toolbars", then click "Language bar". Then right-click the Language Bar (on the Task bar) and choose "Restore the Language bar". You may then position it anywhere convenient on the Screen. Click the DropArrow at the extreme right of the Language bar. Select "Settings...", "Advanced" (Tab) and check the box in "Compatibility Configuration". Click the DropArrow again and ensure that "Speak Text" is ticked - this places a "Speak" button on the Language bar. As a general test, start WordPad, and type in a couple of sentences to be read. Select some text in the WordPad Document, and click the "Speak" button on the Language bar. The selected text should be read. If you do not select text, reading will begin at the Insertion Point, and continue to the end of the document. If that works, then it will certainly work with Word, and using the "Speech Tools" option of that same DropArrow you can train Xp for voice recognition. These tools work, not only with Office, but a number of other programs. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "noname" wrote in message ... I downloaded trial version of Offce 2003. is speech recognition available iin Microsoft Word in it, I searched the help and went to Install and train speech recognition through Word, it told me that i should follow these steps. Open Word. On the Tools menu, click Speech. You're asked if you want to install the feature. Click Yes. After the installation is complete, click Next to train speech recognition. but when I do it , i get a message ' this requires 400 MHz computer and 128 MB memory' and thats all I have windows xp and cpu info is Maximum Speed 800 MHz Current Speed 450 MHz any help will be appreciated. thanks |
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I believe "noname" was asking about Speech Recognition rather than
Text-to-Speech. The former *is* part of Office (XP and 2003) but may not be installed by default. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... G'Day Nemo, The feature(s) you refer to are NOT part of Office or Word, but of Windows Xp itself. [If any of the following steps fails, search WINDOWS XP "Help and Support" (StartHelp and Support) for "text to speech" - see the article on "Text to speech overview".] Right-click the (Windows) Task bar, point to "Toolbars", then click "Language bar". Then right-click the Language Bar (on the Task bar) and choose "Restore the Language bar". You may then position it anywhere convenient on the Screen. Click the DropArrow at the extreme right of the Language bar. Select "Settings...", "Advanced" (Tab) and check the box in "Compatibility Configuration". Click the DropArrow again and ensure that "Speak Text" is ticked - this places a "Speak" button on the Language bar. As a general test, start WordPad, and type in a couple of sentences to be read. Select some text in the WordPad Document, and click the "Speak" button on the Language bar. The selected text should be read. If you do not select text, reading will begin at the Insertion Point, and continue to the end of the document. If that works, then it will certainly work with Word, and using the "Speech Tools" option of that same DropArrow you can train Xp for voice recognition. These tools work, not only with Office, but a number of other programs. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "noname" wrote in message ... I downloaded trial version of Offce 2003. is speech recognition available iin Microsoft Word in it, I searched the help and went to Install and train speech recognition through Word, it told me that i should follow these steps. Open Word. On the Tools menu, click Speech. You're asked if you want to install the feature. Click Yes. After the installation is complete, click Next to train speech recognition. but when I do it , i get a message ' this requires 400 MHz computer and 128 MB memory' and thats all I have windows xp and cpu info is Maximum Speed 800 MHz Current Speed 450 MHz any help will be appreciated. thanks |
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Hi Suzanne,
My understanding was that the 'Office' Speech Recognition feature was available in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office. I was under the impression that Speech recognition was a feature of the operating system. "An internal driver" (as it says in Help & Support), "called an SR engine, recognizes words and converts them to text. The SR engine may be installed with the operating system or at a later time with other software. During the installation process, speech-enabled packages such as word processors and web browsers, may install their own engines or they can use existing ones." My interpretation was that Xp supported Speech Recognition and, if it were not installed, the Office installation could also install it. I'd appreciate your insight. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I believe "noname" was asking about Speech Recognition rather than Text-to-Speech. The former *is* part of Office (XP and 2003) but may not be installed by default. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... G'Day Nemo, The feature(s) you refer to are NOT part of Office or Word, but of Windows Xp itself. [If any of the following steps fails, search WINDOWS XP "Help and Support" (StartHelp and Support) for "text to speech" - see the article on "Text to speech overview".] Right-click the (Windows) Task bar, point to "Toolbars", then click "Language bar". Then right-click the Language Bar (on the Task bar) and choose "Restore the Language bar". You may then position it anywhere convenient on the Screen. Click the DropArrow at the extreme right of the Language bar. Select "Settings...", "Advanced" (Tab) and check the box in "Compatibility Configuration". Click the DropArrow again and ensure that "Speak Text" is ticked - this places a "Speak" button on the Language bar. As a general test, start WordPad, and type in a couple of sentences to be read. Select some text in the WordPad Document, and click the "Speak" button on the Language bar. The selected text should be read. If you do not select text, reading will begin at the Insertion Point, and continue to the end of the document. If that works, then it will certainly work with Word, and using the "Speech Tools" option of that same DropArrow you can train Xp for voice recognition. These tools work, not only with Office, but a number of other programs. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "noname" wrote in message ... I downloaded trial version of Offce 2003. is speech recognition available iin Microsoft Word in it, I searched the help and went to Install and train speech recognition through Word, it told me that i should follow these steps. Open Word. On the Tools menu, click Speech. You're asked if you want to install the feature. Click Yes. After the installation is complete, click Next to train speech recognition. but when I do it , i get a message ' this requires 400 MHz computer and 128 MB memory' and thats all I have windows xp and cpu info is Maximum Speed 800 MHz Current Speed 450 MHz any help will be appreciated. thanks |
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That sounds reasonable. I have Windows 2000, which I assume does not include
SR, but I have that feature with Office XP/2003 (not that I have tried to use it). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, My understanding was that the 'Office' Speech Recognition feature was available in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office. I was under the impression that Speech recognition was a feature of the operating system. "An internal driver" (as it says in Help & Support), "called an SR engine, recognizes words and converts them to text. The SR engine may be installed with the operating system or at a later time with other software. During the installation process, speech-enabled packages such as word processors and web browsers, may install their own engines or they can use existing ones." My interpretation was that Xp supported Speech Recognition and, if it were not installed, the Office installation could also install it. I'd appreciate your insight. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I believe "noname" was asking about Speech Recognition rather than Text-to-Speech. The former *is* part of Office (XP and 2003) but may not be installed by default. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... G'Day Nemo, The feature(s) you refer to are NOT part of Office or Word, but of Windows Xp itself. [If any of the following steps fails, search WINDOWS XP "Help and Support" (StartHelp and Support) for "text to speech" - see the article on "Text to speech overview".] Right-click the (Windows) Task bar, point to "Toolbars", then click "Language bar". Then right-click the Language Bar (on the Task bar) and choose "Restore the Language bar". You may then position it anywhere convenient on the Screen. Click the DropArrow at the extreme right of the Language bar. Select "Settings...", "Advanced" (Tab) and check the box in "Compatibility Configuration". Click the DropArrow again and ensure that "Speak Text" is ticked - this places a "Speak" button on the Language bar. As a general test, start WordPad, and type in a couple of sentences to be read. Select some text in the WordPad Document, and click the "Speak" button on the Language bar. The selected text should be read. If you do not select text, reading will begin at the Insertion Point, and continue to the end of the document. If that works, then it will certainly work with Word, and using the "Speech Tools" option of that same DropArrow you can train Xp for voice recognition. These tools work, not only with Office, but a number of other programs. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "noname" wrote in message ... I downloaded trial version of Offce 2003. is speech recognition available iin Microsoft Word in it, I searched the help and went to Install and train speech recognition through Word, it told me that i should follow these steps. Open Word. On the Tools menu, click Speech. You're asked if you want to install the feature. Click Yes. After the installation is complete, click Next to train speech recognition. but when I do it , i get a message ' this requires 400 MHz computer and 128 MB memory' and thats all I have windows xp and cpu info is Maximum Speed 800 MHz Current Speed 450 MHz any help will be appreciated. thanks |
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speech recognition
I have Office 2000 intalled on my computer and would like to install the
speech recognition feature. Is there any piece of software that can be installed in order to make the feature work with my software? / does Office 2000 has included that feature? Rod Segura "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That sounds reasonable. I have Windows 2000, which I assume does not include SR, but I have that feature with Office XP/2003 (not that I have tried to use it). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, My understanding was that the 'Office' Speech Recognition feature was available in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office. I was under the impression that Speech recognition was a feature of the operating system. "An internal driver" (as it says in Help & Support), "called an SR engine, recognizes words and converts them to text. The SR engine may be installed with the operating system or at a later time with other software. During the installation process, speech-enabled packages such as word processors and web browsers, may install their own engines or they can use existing ones." My interpretation was that Xp supported Speech Recognition and, if it were not installed, the Office installation could also install it. I'd appreciate your insight. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I believe "noname" was asking about Speech Recognition rather than Text-to-Speech. The former *is* part of Office (XP and 2003) but may not be installed by default. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... G'Day Nemo, The feature(s) you refer to are NOT part of Office or Word, but of Windows Xp itself. [If any of the following steps fails, search WINDOWS XP "Help and Support" (StartHelp and Support) for "text to speech" - see the article on "Text to speech overview".] Right-click the (Windows) Task bar, point to "Toolbars", then click "Language bar". Then right-click the Language Bar (on the Task bar) and choose "Restore the Language bar". You may then position it anywhere convenient on the Screen. Click the DropArrow at the extreme right of the Language bar. Select "Settings...", "Advanced" (Tab) and check the box in "Compatibility Configuration". Click the DropArrow again and ensure that "Speak Text" is ticked - this places a "Speak" button on the Language bar. As a general test, start WordPad, and type in a couple of sentences to be read. Select some text in the WordPad Document, and click the "Speak" button on the Language bar. The selected text should be read. If you do not select text, reading will begin at the Insertion Point, and continue to the end of the document. If that works, then it will certainly work with Word, and using the "Speech Tools" option of that same DropArrow you can train Xp for voice recognition. These tools work, not only with Office, but a number of other programs. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "noname" wrote in message ... I downloaded trial version of Offce 2003. is speech recognition available iin Microsoft Word in it, I searched the help and went to Install and train speech recognition through Word, it told me that i should follow these steps. Open Word. On the Tools menu, click Speech. You're asked if you want to install the feature. Click Yes. After the installation is complete, click Next to train speech recognition. but when I do it , i get a message ' this requires 400 MHz computer and 128 MB memory' and thats all I have windows xp and cpu info is Maximum Speed 800 MHz Current Speed 450 MHz any help will be appreciated. thanks |
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