I just downloaded a 60 day trial of Office 2003 Standard. It's 216 Mb - that's 30 mins on a 1Mb connection. So if you are on dial-up it's going to take a long time! 10 hours?
You really need a quality headset for it to work well. I have this one that does the job.
The speech recognition tools are very good. As long as you talk clearly and reasonably slowly, it works well. It also lets you switch to voice command so you can tell it to do tasks like "File", "Save", "Exit" etc. You have to train it to get better at recognising your voice by reading a few little extracts to it - like a bit of Bill Gates' The Road Ahead!
This is a major step forward, especially useful for people who find it difficult to type. The speech recognition also works in Internet Explorer.
I'm on day 1 of my trial, but it's looking good and I might have to upgrade from Office 2000!
Chris
Edited by dangermouse75 on 30/01/2005 16:16 (server time).
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