Vista - MVP's, text to speech!!, Can I dictate in other text input program

Please can a MVP help me, I have just got the new Windows Vista, complete
with the speech recognition program. I should explain that I am disabled and
cannot use my hands. I am so pleased at the progress made on speech
recognition.

However, I have found that dictation or text to speech, works really well in
wordpad and notepad, but I can't seem to get it to work with other text input
programmes such as Windows word, Windows works word processor or other non
Windows Programmes such as Google Earth. When I try to dictate in these
programmes, all speech recognition can do is bring up commands, and my use of
dictation or text to speech is no more.

I am sure that it is a configuration problem and an easy solution for you
experts out there, I sure would like an answer to this, it would be much
appreciated if any MVP's could help me??. For a person like me, it would be
like a dream come true.

Thanking you in advance
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andy t