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Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12 Administrator Guide - Nuance

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<strong>Dragon</strong> system requirements<br />

Chapter 2: Preparing to Install <strong>Dragon</strong><br />

During the installation process, the software checks that your system meets the following requirements.<br />

If they are not met, <strong>Dragon</strong> will not be installed. Note that at least 1 GB of RAM is<br />

required for installation in Windows XP and at least 2 GB of RAM is required for installation in<br />

Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. See Operating systems and RAM, below.<br />

Processor<br />

Minimum<br />

Intel® Pentium® 1 GHz or equivalent AMD processor or 1.66 GHz Atom® processor (SSE2<br />

instruction set required).<br />

Recommended<br />

Intel Pentium 2.4 GHz (dual 1.8 GHz core processor) or equivalent AMD processor.<br />

Faster processors produce faster performance.<br />

If your computer has two or more processors and at least 4 GB of RAM, <strong>Dragon</strong> automatically<br />

selects the dual-pass BestMatch V speech model during User Profile creation. See the <strong>Dragon</strong><br />

Help for details.<br />

NOTE<br />

Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) are not supported.<br />

Processor cache<br />

Minimum: 5<strong>12</strong> KB<br />

Recommended: 2 MB<br />

Operating systems and RAM<br />

Operating system 32-bit 64-bit RAM min<br />

Windows 7<br />

(SP1 or higher)<br />

Windows Vista<br />

(SP2 or higher)<br />

Windows XP<br />

Home (SP3 or<br />

higher)<br />

Windows XP<br />

Professional<br />

(SP3 or higher)<br />

RAM<br />

recommended<br />

√ √ 2 GB 4 GB<br />

√ √ 1 GB 2 GB<br />

√ X 1 GB 2 GB<br />

√ X 1 GB 2 GB<br />

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