Most popular voice recognition systems
Dragon Naturally Speaking
Ninety-nine percent accuracy.
Speak at normal pace (up to 160 words per minute.)
Use to navigate Internet and control desktop.
Compatible with most Windows applications.
Contains vocabulary of as many as 250,000 words.
Able to train system in less than five minutes.
System requirements:
Minimum 200-megahertz Pentium processor or equivalent.
48 megabytes random access memory (RAM) for Windows 95 and 98 (64 megabytes is recommended.)
Two hundred megabytes free hard-disk space.
CD-ROM drive for installation.
IBM ViaVoice Millennium
Improved accuracy.
Ability to browse the Web simply by speaking.
Easy, hands-free command, control, and navigation of desktop.
Wizards to help solve recognition problems.
260,000-word dictionary.
ViaVoice Outloud text-to-speech feature for proofreading.
Windows system requirements:
48 megabytes RAM for Windows.
290 megabytes for Web.
Quad-speed CD-ROM drive.
Display mode set to 256 colors or higher (recommended.)
Windows 95/98 compatible 16-bit sound card of good recording quality (with microphone input jack.)
Macintosh system requirements:
Macintosh G3 or G4 system, with 233 megahertz PowerPC processor or higher.
Mac OS 8.5.1 or greater.
48 megahertz of RAM.
200 megabytes of hard disk space.
CD-ROM drive.
Audio input jack compatible with Andrea NC-71 microphone.
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