Starting/closing Speech Recognition causes system to stop responding

[Guest]

I have Speech Recognition configured to start up automatically when I
log in. But I have noticed that when the Speech Recognition program is
starting (it will say "Starting Speech Recognition"), the rest of the
system will not respond to mouse clicks for anywhere between 10-30
seconds. Finally when the Speech Recognition program has started (it
will say "Sleeping"), the system goes back to normal. And then
sometimes when I close the Speech Recognition program, the system
might stop responding to mouse clicks for 10 seconds or so. I usually
don't see these problems if I launch and close Speech Recognition a
second time after I've logged in. It seems to be the first time that
Speech Recognition launches after I log in that I see the problem.
Anyone else notice this?

 

[Me]

Mine does that too, but it also shuts down for about 30 seconds when I start
it later, not just automatically when my computer turns on. I'm trying to
figure out whether there is a way to stop it from automatically opening when
my computer turns on. Do you know?