[Hector]

To all of my fellow frustrated colleagues of how found out that speech
recognition is no longer a part of Office 2007 here is my personal experience:

I had the very same frustration finding out that MS removed the speech
recognition feature from the OFFICE 2007 suite and placed in directly in the
operating system instead. I was so frustrated that I sent a letter to
Microsoft AND TO MY GREAT SURPRIZE AND EVEN GREATER DELIGHT they sent me a
response the next working day!

I don't know what your system configuration looks like or how comfortable do
you feel tinkering with your Operating System but they did send me a couple
of links so I could instal the Speech Recognition application on my computer.
I am including those instrucions with the links and see how comfortable you
feel with it.
I think that this is better than nothing and I myself do enjoy tweeking my
system in order to get the best performance from it. Best of luck....Hector

...."Please first go to the following link to download and install speech
engine:

Speech SDK 5.1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

After that, please refer to the following link to learn how to use speech
recognition.

How to install and configure speech recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306537/en-us

For more information, please read the article below:

How To Use Speech Recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306901/en-us

Please let me know the results at your earliest convenience."

I don't know why there are people suggesting you go and buy something
instead of trying to instal the application for yourself if you wanted to.
Also to my very big surprize there is a whole website from Microsoft just
dedicated to speech recognition with its own magazine subscription .
As I said before I wish you all the best of luck
--
Hector

[Speechless]

Another way to restore speech recognition if you did an upgrade of Office
2002 or Office 2003 to Office 2007, is to custom install the old version
(Office 2002/2003) just selecting Speech to Text and Voice Recognition. Only
check mark these two items and mark all others as "not available".

Speechless

"Hector" wrote:

To all of my fellow frustrated colleagues of how found out that speech
recognition is no longer a part of Office 2007 here is my personal experience:

I had the very same frustration finding out that MS removed the speech
recognition feature from the OFFICE 2007 suite and placed in directly in the
operating system instead. I was so frustrated that I sent a letter to
Microsoft AND TO MY GREAT SURPRIZE AND EVEN GREATER DELIGHT they sent me a
response the next working day!

I don't know what your system configuration looks like or how comfortable do
you feel tinkering with your Operating System but they did send me a couple
of links so I could instal the Speech Recognition application on my computer.
I am including those instrucions with the links and see how comfortable you
feel with it.
I think that this is better than nothing and I myself do enjoy tweeking my
system in order to get the best performance from it. Best of luck....Hector

..."Please first go to the following link to download and install speech
engine:

Speech SDK 5.1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

After that, please refer to the following link to learn how to use speech
recognition.

How to install and configure speech recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306537/en-us

For more information, please read the article below:

How To Use Speech Recognition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306901/en-us

Please let me know the results at your earliest convenience."

I don't know why there are people suggesting you go and buy something
instead of trying to instal the application for yourself if you wanted to.
Also to my very big surprize there is a whole website from Microsoft just
dedicated to speech recognition with its own magazine subscription .
As I said before I wish you all the best of luck
--
Hector