Speech Recognition Error

[Dhyanesh]

hi,
i have problem when i try to use the speech recognition functions in microsoft Word 2007 nothing happen. on both of my computer,installed windows vista, but not on my xp installed computer,(all three of which have Office XP installed).this happen to any other program which uses MS Direct Speech Recognition.I disabled speech recognition to auto-start when windows booted up but it didn't slove the problem.Any recommendations and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

[Macarenas]

hi,
You could try changing the locale to a different one, restart, change it back to your preferred locale and see if this sorts out your problem. The idea behind that is to just make sure that the locale settings on your system are properly applied as it might have been messed up somewhere either by another program or could be anything else.or try to reinstall it.

[JonathanD]

The least problems seem to occur for users that turn the microphone off and on using a switch on your hardware, or by using the mouse to click the language bar. And if you at least turn dictation off without using a keyboard shortcut (Start+v or Alt+th) you'll have less problems. You can then turn the microphone on however you prefer.

[ThoMas321]

The problem occur due to the following reasons:

• An incorrectly configured audio device
• A corrupted recording profile
• A corrupted user lexicon database (CurrentUserLexicon)

To determine whether CurrentUserLexicon is corrupted, use a hexadecimal editor to open the .dat file that is located in the folder:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Speech\Files\UserLexicons
If the file contains only 0x00 byte values and contains no other data values, the user lexicon database has likely been corrupted.