Speech Recognition not working in Word 2003

[Tom Hall]

I recently upgraded Office 2000 Premium to Office Professional 2003.

I decided I wanted to check out speech recognition so I opened Word - no
Speech item on the Tools menu.

I went through Add and Remove Programs and selected Change for Office 2003
and selected "run all from my computer" for the speech recognition feature.

Everything seemed fine, but speech doesn't work. The item now appears on my
Word menu but does nothing when I click it.

In searching the net for help on this issue, I read somewhere that a Wizard
is supposed to start when you install speech recognition. I can find no
such wizard here.

Can anyone help me figure out why speech isn't working? I have a Logitech
headset with microphone which has worked well in other applications.



Tom

 

[Tom Hall]

Can anyone help me figure out why speech isn't working? I have a Logitech
headset with microphone which has worked well in other applications.

Please disregard. Problem was solved by turning on advanced text services.
A while ago I disabled ctfmon.exe, but once re-enabled speech recognition
is now working.


Tom

 

[Guest]

Tom

Strange how writing down the problem so often focuses the mind on the root
of the problem!

Terry Farrell

 

[Tom Hall]

Strange how writing down the problem so often focuses the mind on the root
of the problem!

Indeed. Some time ago I discovered some issues with another program which
appeared to go away as soon as I nuked ctfmon.exe with Task Manager. After
doing some research, I discovered the way to get rid of ctfmon for good was
to turn off advanced text services in Office 2003. Unfortunately, this also
turned off the dictation feature in Office 2003 as well, so re-enabling
cftmon was the easy fix.

Unfortunately, I am still seeing some odd behavior from other programs
which appears to go away if ctfmon is turned off.

Interestly, I received an email offer for Dragon Naturally Speaking at
half-price last week, and it was only while doing some research on the
software that I discovered that similar capabilities were already built
into Office 2003.

I probably won't bother buying Dragon now...


Tom