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What is Speech?
Speech capabilities for a computer system refers to the ability to play back text in a
spoken voice (referred to as text-to-speech or TTS), or to convert a spoken voice into
electronic text (referred to as speech recognition or SR). The two capabilities are
independent of each other. Many systems will have only TTS. SR may be installed
later either by loading a speech package, or more commonly, through an application
which has incorporated speech into it. For example, a new word processor or office
tool suite may include speech and it will be loaded at that time.
Launch Speech
For speech systems to work properly or for optimal results, the components need to be
set up correctly.
1. Set up a microphone
 Plug a microphone into the microphone jack on the bottom of SlateVision.
 Open Speech in Control Panel.
 Select the Speech Recognition tab.
 Speak directly into the microphone. The sound level should register in the
Microphone Level indicator.
 You can also tap Configure Microphone… to invoke Microphone
Wizard for you to adjust your microphone volume for use with speech
recognition.