testing simon

I am now trying to install Simon under Windows XP.  I am visiting the download page. The file that I need has the name simon-0.2-beta-1-win32.exe.  It has a size of about 28 MB.

The download needs a few minutes.

Welcome to the Simon 0.2 Setup Wizard

The wizard will guide you through the installation of Simon 0.2. Well, I won’t close the other applications on my desktop. Or maybe I should do so? Click next to continue.

Accept the license agreement General public license

By default, Simon 0.2 does not add its directory to the system path. I think that I should do that. So I will choose “Add simon to the system PATH for all users”. And I choose the option to create a Simon desktop icon.

Simon 0.2 will be added to the system path

On my computer, Simon will be installed in the destination folder “H:\Program Files\simon 0.2″.

Choosing the destination folder for Simon

Wow, it requires about 90 MB space. That’s a lot. But commercial speech recognition software requires much more space. I am pretty sure that a future version of Simon will require much more space than this 0.2 version.

Now it is time to choose the components. I think that I will install all components.

Choosing the Simon components

I was able to select all components except the documentation. Is this a bug? Well, never mind. So I will just install the following components: applications, commands, development, localization (and not documentation). After selecting the components, I press the install button.

It takes a few minutes to install Simon.

Please wait while Simon 0.2 is being installed

The installation of Simon is now finished.

The Simon 0.2 setup Wizard is now completed. Simon 0.2 is now installed on the computer. Click finish to close the wizard.

When you visit the Windows start menu, you can see that Simon 0.2 has been installed.

Simon 0.2 in the Windows start menu

Well, I just tried to start Simon, but there seems to be a problem.

Unfortunately, there is a problem.

OK, so I was able to install the new version of Simon. But there is a problem when I want to start the program. Maybe I will try it again.

Tags: Simon 0.2

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