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305174	2004-12-18 06:45:00	undefined Hi there! I started to use speach recognition in Office 2003. I have Pentium 2 with 500 Mhz and 198RAM, running Windows XP Home. SR is in MS word. At first worked ok but then started to freeze when I was starting Speech in Tools. Have to swithch PC of completely since it all stuck and start again Any ideas? Can be lack of memory problem? Thanks, Taly.	taly (5956)
305175	2004-12-18 06:54:00	I don't think you need much Ram to be able to use speech recognition. I would be more suspecting whether you open any more ram-hungry programs whilst you use the speech recognition. Personally, I find it pretty poor. Is there anything from preventing you typing?	~sy~ (95)
305176	2004-12-18 07:02:00	You are probably simply running short of CPU power. MS recommend a workable minimum of a PIII for Office 2003, and the speech recognition would strain that as well in my experience. It is extremely CPU intensive. The absolute minimum is a PII and 233 MHz for basic Office 2003 to run, but it would be like wading through thick porridge with that, even without speech recognition. As above, speech recognition is extremely disappointing. Its not a "mature technology".	godfather (25)
305177	2004-12-18 07:03:00	I'd imagine speech recognition to be quite resource hungry - it may just be that your system can't hope with it. Having said that, my P266 could handle it pretty well in Office 2000, running on Windows 95 - but then again neither of those programs used much memory at all. /edit: godfather just said it all, too slow again...	Growly (6)
305178	2004-12-19 09:09:00	You are probably simply running short of CPU power. MS recommend a workable minimum of a PIII for Office 2003, and the speech recognition would strain that as well in my experience. It is extremely CPU intensive. The absolute minimum is a PII and 233 MHz for basic Office 2003 to run, but it would be like wading through thick porridge with that, even without speech recognition. As above, speech recognition is extremely disappointing. Its not a "mature technology". The 10GB cpu that the P4 arcitechture (SP) was supposed to be valid for, is the breake point for full voice controll of a PC. Speach recognition S/W is extreemly cpu intensive. Running it on a p111 1gb unit is like running xp pro and xp office pro on a P1 233 with 64meg edo ram, it will run, but so does a modell T. Its okay for note taking, but beyond that it really starts to show its faults at the moment. As a person with hand and sight difficulties i tend to follow it a little and look forward to some real improvments with Voice controll S/w. Although it has come a long way in a short time eg the british S/w that details the difference between your voice and the originall singers voice in karyjokie. A.	drb1 (4492)
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