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| Cortex
will run on a PC platform under a MS Windows operating
system. It has |
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been tested under MS Windows 98SE, 2000, ME, XP (Home
and Pro). However |
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we recommend that WindowsXP or later is used especially
if video processing |
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functions are required e.g. for multiple camera support. |
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| Cortex
should be run on a machine with at least a Pentium
III (or equivalent) |
| processor,
256MB RAM, VGA graphics adapter and 50MB of hard disk
space |
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minimum. It should be noted that Cortex archives object
activity data for each |
| day,
so extra hard disk space should be allocated, especially
for high volumes |
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data or on larger systems.
A typical figure is 0.5-1Mb per day |
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addition, support for speech synthesis and recognition
requires installation |
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of SAPI4 or SAPI5 compliant
speech engines. Cortex has been tested using |
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IBM ViaVoice and MS Speech Engines. The latter can
be
downloaded for free |
from Microsoft's website 
or from our own 
section |
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| The
PC requires a real (not USB conversion) RS232 port
for communication to |
