Vista Speech Recognition Starts then Stops

I am running vista 32bit Home Premium edition. I have completed the session setting up the microphone. However, Speech Recognition program will not continue running. When I launch the Speech Recognition program (or when it is automatically started at "start up", it starts to run and then, almost immediately, the icon shows "off". When I click the mic icon, I receive a Speech Recognition error which says "Please restart Speech Recognition". In the body of the error message it says "Speech recognition has
encountered an error. Please restart Speech Recognition to ensure that you can continue to use Speech Recognition." When I restart Speech Recognition the error repeats.

Does anyone know of a fix to this problem? Thanks.

First try

Troubleshoot Speech Recognition problems

also

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...98-220c-4717-b044-829ae4f7c125&displaylang=en

if fails

Try the following hotfix

Windows Speech Recognition stops responding or crashes when you use it to correct text