From what you list, you should have plenty for speech software.  32mb is
reccomended as minimum for software speech.

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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, scully wrote:

> You said that 166 or 200 mega herz is fast enough for most speech software.
>  How about memory? I have a 266 mega herz computer with  64 megs of Ram and
> am considering adding more if it would help.
>
> Thanks...Sue
>
> At 01:22 PM 1/6/99 PST, you wrote:
> >computer speed matters somewhat in the responsiveness of speech software
> >How fast the thing gets its act together after you hit a key.
> >This matters a lot once you get used to a particular
> >environment.  Even more important if you're using a software
> >synthesizer like the one shipping with JFW these days.
> >But still a pentium 166 or 200 is still all and more you're gonna need unless
> >you use a lot of visual stuff.
> >Tom Fowle
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