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This feature is available in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office 2003 and in the Simplified Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office XP.

To use speech recognition, you need the following:

• A high quality close-talk (headset) microphone

  A universal serial bus (USB) microphone with gain adjustment support is recommended. Gain adjustment is a feature that modifies microphone amplification so that the input sound level is appropriate for use by the system.

• 400-megahertz (MHz) or faster computer
• 128 megabytes (MB) or more of RAM
• Office 2003: Microsoft Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3) or Microsoft Windows XP or later
  Office XP: Microsoft Windows 98 or later or Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 or later
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later

Notes

• If you are running Windows 98, but you are not running Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, you need to download Microsoft Active Accessibility Redistribution Kit (RDK) to use voice command in dialog boxes (U.S. English only).
• If you are running Windows NT 4.0, you need to use Internet Explorer 5.5.
• If you are using HTML format for your e-mail messages, and you are running Microsoft Windows 2000 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, you need Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1).