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Dragon Naturally Speaking 6.0 is fully compatible with Windows XP

 

Installing Dragon Naturally Speaking 5.0 on Windows XP


Description:
When installing Dragon Naturally Speaking on Windows XP, a warning dialog box appears (see attached Bitmap)

"This version of Dragon.. has a known compatibility issue with speech functionality when used with this version of Windows"

Clicking the continue button allows the user to install, but the program returns a "Speech.dll" error message when you attempt to run it.
 

Solution:
A: Before installing Dragon, use Windows Explorer to browse the Dragon CD-Rom. Navigate to <CD-Rom Drive>:/dns50/redist/spchapi.exe and install the SAPI 4..0. Then proceed to install Dragon.

OR

B: Click the "Details" button (see attached Bitmap) and follow the link to Microsoft's web site at

http://www.microsoft.com/speech/AppHelp(SAPI4)/sapi4.asp

Download File #1: Microsoft Speech API 4.0a (about 800 kilobytes)

DO NOT download File #2: Microsoft English Text-to-Speech Engine (about 2 megabytes)


 
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