Anyone with an original Pentium or better will have no problem with installation. If you have an IBM Thinkpad or Packard Bell, contact Voice Pilot to see if these machines will work with the program. They have non-standard microphone inputs and a tendency to perform unnatural acts with Voice Pilot sound files. Complete installation will eat up about 100MB of your hard drive. If you use all the features, Voice Pilot will generate a host of data files.
Setup allows a choice of several voice recognition engines.
You can use Dragon Naturally Speaking, Via Voice, Xvoice, or the Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine. Stay with what you're familiar with if you are already using voice recognition. If you are not currently using any voice recognition software, Voice Pilot provides Microsoft's engine for you. After installation and program launch, you wind up with a small horizontal tool bar on the bottom left corner of your screen. If you haven't read the users manual by now, there's a good chance your next move will be to stare at the screen, scratch your head thoughtfully, and wonder what to do next.