There could be other issues too; I am not sure. Any further help is much appreciated. I didn't think this problem will be this big. I have searched everything I could including the Microsoft forums and still I haven't come up with any solution. I even tried uninstalling the audio drivers and then reinstalling them but the speech recognition just doesn't launch. I am disappointed as that's the only feature of Vista that is not functional on my system. I have been researching for a few days and for some hours today, without any solutions.
The speech recognition feature is very important for me and I really want to solve this issue. Any and all the help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Keith. Messages: 18 Likes Received: 0 Trophy Points: 5. Sorry, but no! I have Vista Business on an X61T and it worked "out of the box". I have not made much actual use of it, but it was quite interesting to experiment with this feature. It does get a bit confused if there is any other noise in the room.
I wonder why it is starting via a wizard? Maybe it it trying to lead you through configuration and training? It's just possible that the application itself will work if you can bypass the wizard. I have the touch screen rather than SXGA, but I can't believe that will be the cause of your problems. Jonathan , Feb 13, Thanks Jonathan for offering your help. I appreciate it. I did observe that the file that should be executing is the one that you specified too, "sapisvr.
I have tried clicking and running the file directly but it didn't work. I don't think I had this problem right from the beginning although I did not test this until now. You can set up your microphone from the Speech Recognition Options dialog box or the Speech context menu. The microphone setup wizard will first ask you to identify your microphone type headset, desktop, or other. The wizard recommends that you use a headset, and I can verify that the microphone type makes a huge difference.
The first time I tried to use Vista's speech recognition, I was using a desktop microphone that works fine for such tasks as recording voiceovers for PowerPoint presentations in Camtasia. However, when I tried dictating in Vista, the results were laughable; I was rarely able to dictate a whole sentence without at least one misinterpreted word, regardless of how carefully and clearly I tried to enunciate.
After I switched to a headset which cost about 30 dollars more than the desktop microphone , accuracy improved to the point where mistakes were occurring once every five or six sentences rather than several times per sentence. After you select the microphone type, the next page of the wizard shows you how to position it correctly for best results.
Next, you're asked to read a short bit of text aloud into the microphone, as shown in Figure F. The microphone is now set up and ready to use. However, that doesn't mean the speech engine is ready to work with your voice.
If you have a standard, newscaster non-accent and always enunciate very clearly, you might be able to use speech recognition without training it to your voice. If you have a Texas accent as I do, or any other nonstandard way of speaking, you'll get much better results if you go through the training process.
Training process involves reading a series of text selections, one screen at a time, as shown in Figure G. Now you're ready to use voice commands to perform tasks on your computer. The speech engine is typically much more accurate at recognizing commands than dictation, because it's listening for only a limited number of commands.
First, be sure the Speech console shows the speech status as Listening. Voice commands are designed to be as intuitive as possible. For example, to open a program from the Start menu:. Simple commands are easy to use. Navigating around in some programs can be a little more challenging, but you can, for example, tab to the next option by saying "Tab.
What do you do if you want to click a button or link for which you don't know the name, such as the Office logo button at the top-left corner of Word? Here's a nifty trick: just say, "Show numbers," and all interactive elements in the active window will be overlaid with numbers, as shown in Figure H. Now all you have to do is say the number of the button you want to click.
An OK box will appear on that element. Say, "OK," and you've clicked the button. If you don't know how to do something, you can use Help in English only by asking, "How do I" followed by the task you want to perform. For example, you might ask, "How do I turn on speech recognition? You can dictate text into any speech-enabled application. You are not limited to Microsoft Office applications as you were in the past.
For example, you can dictate into Notepad or WordPad. You can also dictate into the Windows Live Writer blogger application.
I was not able to dictate into Open Office Writer and other non-Microsoft programs by default, but when I selected Options Enable Dictation Everywhere from the Speech context menu, which is used to dictate text into programs that don't automatically accept dictation, I was able to dictate to the Open Office program.
However, it didn't work as well as with Microsoft programs. Instead of immediately typing the text I spoke, it would pop up a number of alternatives for me to choose from. With the Speech APIs, developers can make their applications speech-enabled and many more probably will in the future. When you're dictating, Vista will type everything you say into the document. It can be a little disconcerting if, while working on a document, you stop to talk to a colleague and then find your end of the conversation transcribed into the document.
After a while, it becomes second nature to tell Vista, "Stop listening" when you want to say something you don't want transcribed. This issue occurs if Number of spaces to insert after punctuation option under speech options is set to the value 2.
You can use the Speech Properties dialog box to set options for Windows Speech Recognition , follow the steps mentioned below to resolve the issue. Click advanced speech options. In the speech options dialog box look for - Number of spaces to insert after punctuation —Select number 1 from drop down box.
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