What happened to the Speech Recognition Tool in Office 2007 -

[Guest]

What happened to the Speech Recognition Tool in Office 2007 - I spent the
better half of tonight trying to find it - including the MS Website - I am
going to be so upset to have spent this much money on the new 2007 Suite and
wind up losing more than what I have "gained" with the new version!

 

[Guest]

speech recognition is now part of the OS and is included in Windows Vista.
There are very many improvements in the speech engine over previous versions.

 

[Guest]

So, if you still have XP & purchased Office 2007 Suite - but don't have VISTA
- then you are basically screwed - right?

That really sux!

But thanks for replying and letting me know - I may just uninstall and go
back to my Office XP - at least until I get me a new computer - this has been
the biggest headache!

 

[Jezebel]

Of course you're screwed. This is Microsoft you're talking about. That's
what they're good at.

 

[Pat Garard]

G'Day Chris,

The following was provided by "Hector" in the THIS Group (13 March) ....

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Please first go to the following link to download and install speech
engine:

*Speech SDK 5.1*
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530&DisplayLang=en

After that, please refer to the following link to learn how to use speech
recognition.

How to install and configure speech recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306537/en-us

For more information, please read the article below:

How To Use Speech Recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306901/en-us
I have not tested it since I already had the Speech Engine (from Office 2003).

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Pat,

From some early testing, the method described will install the speech basic tools in
\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft\Speech, but, if I recall correctly it only partially worked if you don't have a prior Office
Edition installed, allowing you to dictate text, but you couldn't naviagate the ribbon or use Word voice commands for formatting,
but it's been awhile since I disabled it again (it does make a difference in the speed of the app <g>).

Using http://nuance.com seems to be a more stable choice.

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<<"Pat Garard" <apgarard-bigpond:net:au> wrote in message G'Day Chris,

The following was provided by "Hector" in the THIS Group (13 March) ....

<<
Please first go to the following link to download and install speech
engine:

*Speech SDK 5.1*
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530&DisplayLang=en

After that, please refer to the following link to learn how to use speech
recognition.

How to install and configure speech recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306537/en-us

For more information, please read the article below:

How To Use Speech Recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306901/en-us
I have not tested it since I already had the Speech Engine (from Office 2003).
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Regards,
Pat Garard <<

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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Pat Garard]

Hi Bob,

I sometimes use the writing recognition - I have a USB graphics pad for other
reasons.

The speech recognition I did play with, but often gave bizarre results.

Is the Dragon that much better?