Vista - Voice recog works great for commands, but not at all for dictation

Hi,

I've recently started having a problem with voice recognicnition under
vista.
I can control all items of my PC and issue all commands, first time every
time. And all the tutorials go well.

However, when I try to use dictation, in any application, lets say, wordpad.
It never, ever does any dictation whatsoever, no matter how long i speak
for. The best I get is the mic logo says "pressing keys" and it puts up a
few letters. That or a random number actions happen that do strange things
to my computer.

Dictation works very well in the tutorial though.

Has anyone had this problem ?

make sure that you have checked the option"start dictation on all location"
(maybe different in english language version)



"Michael" <Michael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D3F7683-E23E-4515-9BF1-BEBED0855748@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I've recently started having a problem with voice recognicnition under
> vista.
> I can control all items of my PC and issue all commands, first time every
> time. And all the tutorials go well.
>
> However, when I try to use dictation, in any application, lets say,
> wordpad.
> It never, ever does any dictation whatsoever, no matter how long i speak
> for. The best I get is the mic logo says "pressing keys" and it puts up a
> few letters. That or a random number actions happen that do strange
> things
> to my computer.
>
> Dictation works very well in the tutorial though.
>
> Has anyone had this problem ?

I think you'll find that the tutorial was rigged to work right. I haven't
had that much problem with dictation, but it's obviously going to take a lot
of training to improve accuracy.

"Michael" <Michael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D3F7683-E23E-4515-9BF1-BEBED0855748@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I've recently started having a problem with voice recognicnition under
> vista.
> I can control all items of my PC and issue all commands, first time every
> time. And all the tutorials go well.
>
> However, when I try to use dictation, in any application, lets say,
> wordpad.
> It never, ever does any dictation whatsoever, no matter how long i speak
> for. The best I get is the mic logo says "pressing keys" and it puts up a
> few letters. That or a random number actions happen that do strange
> things
> to my computer.
>
> Dictation works very well in the tutorial though.
>
> Has anyone had this problem ?