Ghost Writing

[Marilyn]

Am running Office 2003 beta version and have the
following issue. If I don't immediately turn speech off
every time I open Word, Excel, IE, etc., my PC starts
writing by itself. There is no correlation with words I
might be saying, its "word salad." Wherever my insertion
point is, words begin to appear. Very strange.

Anyone out there know why this might be happening?

Thanks.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

It sounds like the speech engine is interpreting static and other
environmental noise as words. Or... maybe the computer is haunted!

If you never use speech, then I suggest that you remove it. It's a bit of a
resource hog, in addition to the problems you've discovered. Barring that,
you might try turning the volume all the way down on the Microphone (of
whatever recording device is selected).