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
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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.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"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" (Start>Help 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
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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
