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Old June 12th 11, 10:51 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Tim Meddick[_3_]
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Default Freeware or Low Cost Speech Recognition for XP

The picture I posted is of the way the Language Bar *should* look - you had
said, in a previous post, that you had managed to get the Language Bar to
appear on your desktop. If that was so, then what the hell did *your*
Language Bar look like?

The more important icon to appear on it being the Microphone icon - and in
pressing on it - will automatically enable the Microphone (from it's
normally disabled status - you don't want it on all the time) and thereby
activate dictation when you do so while working in a compatible word
processing application (such as M$ Word).

If the microphone is not present - or not working - the icon won't show up
in the first place.

Can you tell me what happens when you open the "Speech" Control Panel, and
press on the "Configure Microphone" button?

Also, on the same page, you will need to use the "Train Profile" utility
(middle section) in order to make your peculiar voice characteristics
recognisable to the computer.

Can you tell me if you actually can use either the "Configure Microphone"
or the "Train Profile" buttons in the "Speech" Control Panel?

If you cannot, but the items exist in the "Speech" Control Panel, I suspect
your microphone is either not present or not working....

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"softandmicroey" wrote in message
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On Jun 11, 8:33 pm, "Tim Meddick" wrote:
All I can do is show you how it's supposed to look ;

http://twitpic.com/5ab309

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I double checked the settings you just refered to thru the run
shortcut i copied and pasted, only to find that both are set as you
describe. The symbols you describe and refer me the the pic file of
show up nowhere on the taskbar or otherwise.

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