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I have used Microsoft Office's built-in speech recognition successfully with
Word 2003 on XP. Now I am trying to use Vista's speech recognition with Word
2003.
The training program recognizes voice properly, as evidenced by saying a
training phrase improperly: it won't let you advance to the next screen until
you say it properly. So it is hearing and understanding voice.
But no words EVER appear in the Word document. Not the wrong words, NO words.
When turning on speech recognition with Word open one of two things happen,
either:
1. A variety of commands seem to happen—sidebars open, dialog boxes pop up,
etc.
2. Speech recognition dialog shows "What was that?"
It is clearly hearing and responding. Set mic volume several times, and db
meter in speech recognition shows normal response. It's as if it's in what in
Office used to be called "command mode" where it only listens for commands,
not words.
I mention Office's command mode, but Vista does not seem to have a "command
mode," although it is behaving as if everything is either a command or
unclear, and never a word. Note that choosing Tools>Speech in Word has no
effect. No checkbox appears, clicking the speech option and speaking, then
clicking again and speaking, etc. has no effect.
Word 2003 on XP. Now I am trying to use Vista's speech recognition with Word
2003.
The training program recognizes voice properly, as evidenced by saying a
training phrase improperly: it won't let you advance to the next screen until
you say it properly. So it is hearing and understanding voice.
But no words EVER appear in the Word document. Not the wrong words, NO words.
When turning on speech recognition with Word open one of two things happen,
either:
1. A variety of commands seem to happen—sidebars open, dialog boxes pop up,
etc.
2. Speech recognition dialog shows "What was that?"
It is clearly hearing and responding. Set mic volume several times, and db
meter in speech recognition shows normal response. It's as if it's in what in
Office used to be called "command mode" where it only listens for commands,
not words.
I mention Office's command mode, but Vista does not seem to have a "command
mode," although it is behaving as if everything is either a command or
unclear, and never a word. Note that choosing Tools>Speech in Word has no
effect. No checkbox appears, clicking the speech option and speaking, then
clicking again and speaking, etc. has no effect.