System Requirements (2011-2012)

PC:

  • Pentium III 1GHz minimum, Pentium 4 1.8GHz recommended
  • Windows 98, 2000, NT, XP, 7 or higher*
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 256kbps DSL or better**
  • Display resolution 1024x768 or higher
  • Sound card
  • Internet Explorer 7.0; Firefox 3.5+
  • Flash Player plugin (9.0 or better) Go to www.adobe.com
  • Adobe Reader (8.0 or better) Go to www.adobe.com
  • Windows Media Player (11.0 or better) Go to www.microsoft.com
  • Cookies enabled
  • Javascript enabled
  • Headset/Microphone

*Please note that powerspeaK¹² will not work properly with Microsoft Vista; you may have issues recording or saving data if using Vista. It WILL, however, work properly with Windows 7.

Macintosh:

  • Power Mac G3 processor, Mac Intel processor recommended
  • OSX
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 256kbps DSL or better**
  • Display resolution 1024x768 or higher
  • Sound card
  • Internet Explorer 7.0; Firefox 3.5+
  • Flash Player plugin (9.0 or better) Go to www.adobe.com
  • Adobe Reader (8.0 or better) Go to www.adobe.com
  • Cookies enabled
  • Javascript enabled
  • Headset/Microphone

**Please note that a slow internet connection will affect the performance of multimedia elements found in powerspeaK¹² language courses.

NWAC Accredited

powerspeaK¹² is part of the Middlebury Interactive Languages (MIL) family of
products. MIL is accredited through the Northwest Accreditation Commission.