Voice Recognition problem...

[Alan Brown]

One of the computers at our business has developed a
nastly little problem. It is running Windows XP and Office
XP. Every time you run Excel or Outlook, it comes up with
an error along the lines of "Speech Recognition needs at
least a 400Mhz processor to run." It is getting very
annoying, as this person runs Excel alot during the day.

Can anyone tell me how to remove this error. I have tried
to REMOVE the feature using the add/remove wizard, but it
did not effect it...

I will be happy to get complex Registry editing
instructions. As long as it removes this error.

NOTE : Noone give me the 'goto tools, goto speech, and
untick anything' advice. It does not work unless Speech
Recognition is running, and it doesnt run at all!

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Alan,

You might try going to the Control Panel and in Regional and Language
Options on the Language tab click Details and remove Speech
Recognition. Then in Add/Remove Features for Office XP make sure
Alternative User Input is set to "Not Available".

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[Eric Lawrence [MSFT]]

On the Tools menu, is "Speech" checked?

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[Alan Brown]

From what i can remember, the Speech option isnt a menu,
but an option. When you click on it, it tries to enable
speech but cant (for the obvious reason...).

for some reason Speech Recognition has enabled itself
before office is run, so it starts enabled! Then is
disabled because of the processer.

 

[Alan Brown]

Ok. I just had a look and this is what i found...

the problem affect the following programs in office XP

Word
Excel
Outlook

Word : When you start up word it gives the error over the
splash screen. Under the tools menu, Speech is just an
option, that gives an error if you click on it.

Excel : When you start up excel it gives the error over
the splash screen. Under the tools menu, Speech is a menu,
that contains the 'Show Speech to Text Toolbar' option.
That opens the toolbar. Nothing else.

Outlook : Also shows the error over the Splash screen, but
then also shows it once it is loaded.

I had removed the 'speech-to-text' option in Office Setup,
and i just removed all the Alternitive inputs options.

The person whose computer it is said to me that they never
used to get this error before they moved office (we had a
small move around, about 3 months ago) and it only showed
up in the new office.