C H A P T E R 2
Installing and Training
Dragon NaturallySpeaking User’s Guide
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Pentium
®
II, Pentium
®
with MMX™, Intel Celeron
®
, AMD™ K6
®
-2,
AMD™ K6-III with 3DNow!™, AMD™ Athlon™, and more.
*For optimal performance, in combination with other applications running on
your system, a 500 MHz processor or faster and 256 MB RAM are
recommended.
Plug in the microphone
Here’s how to set up your regular (non-USB) microphone. (If you have a
USB microphone, follow the instructions that came with it instead of this
description.) Find the microphone plug at the end of the wire attached
to the microphone. If the wire ends in just one plug, that is the
microphone plug. If the wire ends in two plugs, one is the microphone
plug and the other is for the speaker in the microphone’s earpiece.
Check the instructions included with your microphone to figure out
which is which. The microphone plug sometimes has a small picture of a
microphone imprinted in the plastic base of the plug. If the two plugs
are different colors, the brightly colored one is usually the microphone
plug.
Next, find the microphone jack in the sound card of your computer. On
desktop computers, this small, round opening is almost always on the
back of your computer. There will be one, two, or three similar-sized
jacks next to it (all are part of your computer’s sound hardware). Each
jack should be labeled with words (
MIC
,
LINE IN
,
SPKR
) or pictures.
Choose the jack with the word
MIC
or the picture of a microphone. The
labels can be difficult to spot. They may be engraved into the metal
plate the jacks are set into or imprinted on the plastic case of the
computer. (On many computers the microphone jack has a red circle
around it.)
On laptops, the microphone jack may be on the side or front instead of
the back of the computer.
