Re: How do I activate speech recognition for Office Pro 2007?



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After furious head scratching, WorkingOnWise asked:

| So am I to understand that when I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office
| 2007, I Lost speech functionality!? When I do an upgrade, I expect to
| Increase and Improve features and stability, Not Lose It!
| command an d control and dictation worked fine in xp with Office
| 2003. In fact, I have used microsofts speech dictation since version
| 4 of the SAPI, back in 1999, in Windows 2000. I was So thrilled to
| see you guys integrate it into Office 2003! AND NOT, WHAT WORKED FINE
| IS REMOVED? I can only assume it is a marketing move to "encourage"
| me to move to Vista. Like many others, I wil not be moving to Vista
| any time soon, and if I am right in that dictation being removed from
| Office was a marketing decision, then I will never move to Vista, and
| Office 2007 will be the last Microsoft product I buy. I am very
| unhappy about this. Give me back dictation, and command and control,
| or lose a customer for life. Windows XP is good enough that I can't
| imagine a reason to leave it. The OS is a foundation for me to work
| on top of. XP fits that very well. To take a feature away to get me
| to move to Vista is a very bad idea. Those of us that use voice
| features have better things to do than play your marketing games. So,
| who makes a comparable voice app? They will get my money.
| Unless there is a patch to give me back the feature I lost by
| upgrading, I will never upgrade another Microsoft app. This is a
| critical juncture that you have put yourself in. Good Day
.



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