Windows Speech Recognition question

Hello there!

I happen to have a question about the windows speech recognition. As I enter the control panel and double click on the speech recognition icon i don't get the standard ready-to-set-up menu, instead i get this:

If you would like to learn more about speech related tools and support from Microsoft, visit the Microsoft speech online community.

I did click the blue marked words, and i got directed on a Microsoft page, explaining what wsr is. I searched high and low for a way to install this on my computer, but failed, miserably.

So my question is the following: Is it possible that i cannot install speech recognition on my computer? If it is indeed possible for me to install the speech recognition software how can i do it?

I would very much appreciate any kind of help, as I'm an aspiring English student, and speech recognition would very much help perfect my pronunciation.

That happens because the Control Panel applet is not the Speech Recognition software but the Speech Recognition Options.

You want the program in your %SystemRoot%\Speech\Common\ folder. Do a search for sapisvr.exe. That's the actual speech program.

Hi!

I did find the folder, but the problems is, when I double click to open the software, it won't open at all.

Any ideas about that?