Microsoft Voice Recognition

[john tee]

this is a RE-post

I'm running windows X. P. professional and have been
successfully using Microsoft voice recognition within
Microsoft Word for some time. I have voice trained the
software to almost perfection over many months, and this
is particularly pleasing as I suffer extreme arthritis in
my hands which makes typing very painful . However, just
recently the windows X. P. platform has become quite
unstable , probably due to magazine demos which I have
tested, and the only solution seems to be reformatting my
hard drive, and a clean install of X.P.

I need to know if it is possible to save "my personal
voice recognition training data" , with view to burning
this to CD, and thereafter copying this across once the
new install is complete.

Can anybody advise me whether this is possible , and
precisely how to go about it .

Many thanks in advance , respectfully yours , John in the
united kingdom .

PS , this text has been compiled using the Microsoft
voice recognition facility , hopefully there are not too
many errors

 

[RJK]

When you achieve a robust Windows installation that's doing what you want it
to do, you should create a restore point. And should you go a few weeks or
more with Windows as you like it, and everything is working properly, you
create a restore point, there can never be too many restore points. Restore
points in addition to the automatic ones, ...so that you can recognize your
own labels given to the "extra" restore points.

It is unfortunate that you have installed magazine software that has upset
your Windows platform. You should explore the possibility that a restore
point exists, that could restore your machine to the condition it was in,
before it was upset.

You should also examine your voice recog. software to see how it is
structured, where it lives, and what can be saved. I suspect it's quite
possible to save the work you've already put into it. You'll perhaps need
to talk with the software house that wrote the software. They'll be able to
tell you how it works, and where and what user data files are stored in your
machine, and they'll be able to tell you how to install that software afresh
and restore your user data / profiles etc.

regards, Richard

 

[Anthony Procissi [MSFT]]

Hi John,

Sorry for the delayed response.
This link provides a tool for transferring the voice recognition data.
(I'd recommend unzipping the files to somewhere other than the default temp
directory).

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/f/4/6f4fb125-9834-42e1-8bb5-474c29b060e4/SpProfileMgr.exe

 

[RJK]

And what I should have said as well was, Create a restore point before
"examining" magazine software, then after you've examined it and
having decided it's junk, you can uninstall it. Should problems arise
uninstalling it, you can 'cut your losses' and restore your registry to how
it was before you examined the junk......oops! I mean magazine software

Even if the software house that wrote the junk....double-ooooops! ...I mean
software, wrote a half decent uninstall proggy, which they nearly never,
ever, do ...and after running that "uninstall," ...(because you FIRST
created a restore point), and even if the "uninstall" program seemed to do
it's job, you can be sure that there is no junk from it, left in your
registry, by restoring your registry to how it was b4 you installed the
"junk" ...triple oooooooops! ....I mean software !

regards, Richard

ps never trust somone who smiles too much ""
....never install software junk from magazine disks, unless it's the "full -
free" version of a program that you really need and have a use for !!
....and if you must GUESS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO FIRST !