When I installed office 2007 speach recognition was no longer available - can
I get this back?

Hi Roy,

MS Office XP introduced speech a then new MS Windows speech recognition engine. For Office 2007 the Windows Speech folks have taken
back the responsibility for dictation and, so far, have chosen to focus their efforts on the Windows Vista platform. Dictation and
inking (alternative input) have been removed as Office features. At present the workarounds in Windows XP have a number of
shortcomings to the point that 3rd party products such as Dragon from http://nuance.com (which has been targeted on just that market
for years) is probably a more viable alternative.

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<<"Roy" <Roy> wrote in message news:2cdb
When I installed office 2007 speach recognition was no longer available - can I get this back?>>

Hi Bob,

Thank you so much for your prompt and concise reply.

Regards,

Roy

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
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I have speech recognition in 2003 and it works in 2007, did you uninstall
2003?
"Roy" <Roy> wrote in message
news:c232
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Hi Jenn,

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

No I did not have Office 2003. I bought a new computer that had Home XP
Media center and I found the speach recognition when I first started to use
it. I then installed office 2007 update and later found that the speach
recognition has vanished.

It sounds like you must have retained some of the 2003 features.


"Jenn Giannino" wrote:
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I had problems using Dragon Naturally Speaking with Office 2007 (I had DNS
version 9.1 and it worked fine with Office 2003. In working with the
discussion group at DNS, i found you have to get version DNS 9.5, which is
listed under the Vista section. However, it works fine with Windows XP. It is
free if you have a license, and is a 1 gb download to completely reinstall
over version 9. I have tested it in 2007 onenote, outlook, and word, and it
works fine in all of them.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
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I recently gave up using a secretary and now use Vista Ultimate, Office 2007
and Dragon Naturally Speaking (ver 9.5). Is it possible to use DNS ir Excel?
If not, what is the best workaround? Dictating into a Word table and then
converting it to text, then importing into Excel and then re-formatting was a
pain!

"roger" wrote:
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Thanks Mikelis,

I have Vista Home Premium now and speach recognition is back, I tried it in
Word 2007 and it works fine although dictation can sometimes be frustrating.
My typing skills are not very good (I have to look at the keys to type then
check the screen to make sure it's correct). I don't think I would even
consider speach recognition for Excel.

Regards - Roy


"Mikelis" wrote:
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This is a comment to the question about using Excel with DNS.

I primarily use DNS 9.5 on Windows XP, with Outlook, OneNote and Word. I
just tried it in Excel, and it works fine if you understand how Excel accepts
entries. For example, you could dictate a title or long description, and it
will extend over cells, as any normal loan Excel entry. However, you cannot
use commands like "new line or new paragraph". The reason is the dictaton
continues writing in a single cell in the result looks awful. I found making
entries with numbers was fine with DNS, but you have to manually move the
cursor to each new cell. So I think it. You can keep your mind organized
while moving the mouse, dictating, and reading your source material, it
probably wouldn't be much different to try to do the same thing with the
keyboard entries.

Incidentally, I find there are still some errors when using DNS 9.5 in
office 2007. These errors decrease if you first dictate in the DNS dictation
box. I tried recordings of material and a portable flash Drive recorder, and
let it transfer into DNS. There were a number of errors when going straight
to Microsoft Word. But there were many fewer when going to the DNS dictation
box.

FYI, I dictated this entire message by DNS and had to make two types of
corrections. There was one confusion of accept versus except, and twice the
software added to a period and started a new sentence when I did not intend
it (find this is somewhat common).

Roger

"Roy - C" wrote:
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