Tuesday, November 17, 2009

What type of sound card do I need to install a speech recognition program?

I am considering purchasing a speech recognition system for my PC. From my understanding, it comes with everything but a "sound card." I'm not sure I understand what a sound card is. How do I know which one to buy? How much do they cost? And, for anyone who already has such a system, how easy is it to install?

What type of sound card do I need to install a speech recognition program?
Most PCs come with a sound card preinstalled, or with sound circuitry built into the motherboard. If you have a microphone input and speaker outputs on the back of your PC, you have what you need. They're normally 1/8" phone jacks. The microphone jack is pink and the speaker jack is light green.





If you don't have a sound card (and that's highly unlikely) you can get one at any computer store. It plugs into a PCI slot on the motherboard.


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