Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac Hi leaferz, Welcome to Laptop GPS World forums! |
Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac What are the specifications of the 2nd laptop you are considering to purchase for running iGuidance? |
Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac leaferz, my first though would be that if Pentium 2 -233MHz is within the minimum system requirements for at least one of the above listed operating systems, iGuidance 4 should run satisfactorily on the laptop. I personally don't have experience running iGuidance on such slow CPU, but I bet there are quite a few people out there who do exactly as you are thinking of doing: buy an inexpensive, 2nd hand laptop for use as a car computer. I'd like if someone could give you answer from their experience how iGuidance runs on such laptop, but I suspect while I'm typing these words you are likely already installing your iGuidance on the laptop . |
Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac Thanks for sharing the info. I'm very curious how iGuidance 4 will perform on the Pentium 2 - 233MHz laptop under various operating systems! And as far as Microsoft Anna is concerned, even though she may have the most attractive voice out of the selection Microsoft has to offer today, she still sounds like a robot to me when I switch from listening to iGuidance pre-recorded voice files to text-to-speech. However, if I listen only to text-to-speech for a while, I can actually get used to her, and she will actually start sounding reasonably well (but only till I switch back to pre-recorded voices ). |
Speech recognition requirements To use speech recognition, you must have the following hardware and software components: • A high-quality close-talk (headset) microphone. A USB microphone is recommended. • A 400 megahertz (MHz) or faster computer with 128 megabytes (MB) of memory. • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later. • The speech recognition engine must be installed. It is available with Office XP, but it may not have been installed. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306537/EN-US/ |
Originally Posted by leaferz Not having a screen altogether would be quite nice as well or at least the ability to shut/close it off. |
Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac |
Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac Yes, but I think most users would agree that an occasional glance at the screen is needed no matter which GPS navigation system you use. |