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Windows Vista®: Home Entertainment with Windows® Media Center and Xbox 360™
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Windows Vista®: Home Entertainment with Windows® Media Center and Xbox 360™

by S. E. Slack, Greg Slack
September 2007
Beginner
384 pages
7h 48m
English
Microsoft Press
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Voice Recognition

Why doesn’t the computer hear me?

There could be several different reasons—the microphone might not be close enough to your mouth, it might be muted, or the microphone input level might be too low. If you need to adjust the microphone input level, follow these steps:

  1. In Windows Vista, click Start.

  2. Click Control Panel.

  3. In the Control Panel Home view, click Hardware And Sound.

  4. Click Sound.

  5. In the Sound dialog box, click the Recording tab.

  6. Double-click the microphone you use.

  7. Click the Levels tab, and make adjustments as necessary.

Note

If you have more than one microphone installed on your computer, the wrong one might be selected for use with speech recognition. Double-check to be certain you’re using the microphone selected for speech ...

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