Please ignore the link in my previous post.

I do apolagise, it's been a very long time since I installed the Speech
Recognition and Text-to-Speech Engines onto my system.

After doing a search of my, usually complete and up-to-date collection of
downloaded installation files, I found a file that I thought was the right
one and quoted where I obtained it.

I was wrong, the file was a 3rd-party utillity application that just uses
the MS Agent components.

But, to use Speech Regocnition and Text-to-speech, you need to follow these
steps;
(If you are using Windows XP, you can skip step no.(1))


Installing MS Agent Speech
==========================
(http://www.msagentring.org/setup.aspx)

Download the following components and then execute each in turn by
double-clicking on them and following the setup prompts as they appear...



1). Install Microsoft Agent Core Components version 2.0 (395K)*

*(Skip this step if using Windows XP, ME, 2K, Vista or Win7)

http://activex.microsoft.com/activex...t2/MSagent.exe

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2). Install the Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice,
Text-to-Speech Engine (English version) (1MB).

http://activex.microsoft.com/activex...t2/tv_enua.exe

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3). Install the Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine,
version 4.0 (6MB)

http://activex.microsoft.com/activex...nt2/actcnc.exe

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4a). Install the Microsoft Speech Control Panel (840K)

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...39/SpchCpl.exe

and also;

4b). Agent 2.0 Add-in: SAPI 4 control panel applet (928K)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/e...4-d5de6023aa23


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




"softandmicroey" wrote in message
...
What is the best freeware or low cost way to use speech recogntion
with xp? I just recently got a microphone and am interesting in
navagating and interacting with the desktop software via speech
recognition.

Any help appreciated,
Matt