Speech recognition - install question with Office 2007

[roger]

Everything was working fine and something I did when cleaning up my computer
from old office 2003 files after installling 2007 caused the "speech
recognition" tab on the Speech listing in Control Pannel disappeared. I
looked at KB 306537 (Jan 06) to reinstall the tab (this was with office 2003
and 2007 does not have the same options. I also looked at KB 278927 and the
same problem. These ask that you "change" the office program in add/remove
programs, then under features to install you click office shared features -
so far so good. But the next option does not exist in 2007 - click
alternative user input.

I don't know what happens, things used to work, even with 2007 before i
cleaned up (using registry mechanic). I am using dragon naturally speaking,
and this program needs the speech feature for it to work.

Roger

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Roger,

Dragon Naturally Speaking (http://nuance.com) has it's own speech engine that ordinarily doesn't require what used to ship in MS
Office. There isn't an alternative input/speech capability included in Office 2007. The Windows team took back the ownership of
that application and it is available in Windows Vista, but not in Windows XP.

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Everything was working fine and something I did when cleaning up my computer
from old office 2003 files after installling 2007 caused the "speech
recognition" tab on the Speech listing in Control Pannel disappeared. I
looked at KB 306537 (Jan 06) to reinstall the tab (this was with office 2003
and 2007 does not have the same options. I also looked at KB 278927 and the
same problem. These ask that you "change" the office program in add/remove
programs, then under features to install you click office shared features -
so far so good. But the next option does not exist in 2007 - click
alternative user input.

I don't know what happens, things used to work, even with 2007 before i
cleaned up (using registry mechanic). I am using dragon naturally speaking,
and this program needs the speech feature for it to work.

Roger<<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[roger]

Bob, I have a little more history than what i entered below. Even when the
tab was visible, in order to get Dragoon to work, i had to first go into the
Speech choice in control panel, say one word into the speech area (the one
that is no longer there), and then Dragon would work. When checking with
Dragon i got no clear answer, but since this aproach worked, even though it
was time consuming, i used it. So it sounds like i have two issues - why did
i loose the tab on the speech selection in control panel, and to get with
dragon to find why it really does not work. Any thoughts on why the tab
disappeared?

Roger

 

[Speechless]

Go back to your old Office 2002 or Office 2003 and do a custom install of
that old version, marking all items as "not available" except "text to
speech" and "voice recognition". This will restore your tab.

Speechless

 

[cliff]

So does that mean that because I upgraded Office to 2007, but kept XP I can
no longer draw on/annotate Powerpoint slides during a slide show using the
felt tip pen or highlighter tool? It certainly seems so, because I've tried
everything I can think of but am unable to regain this functionality. Any
thoughts please?