Re: speech recognition engine for office 2007

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It still dose not mean the the speech engine that was FREE in office 2003
should have been left out of office 2007. It seems that Microsoft has
forgotten the end-users who suffer from disabilities that make using the
keyboard difficult. Now they are having to face expences that they could do
without.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

The speech engines actually belong to the MS Windows folks, although MS Office first packaged them in the product. Other than the
first installment of them there wasn't really any advancement provided for the Office team to include (i.e. English U.S., Chinese
and Japanese were fairly limited language support choices).

With Office 2007 the responsibility for the dictation feature returned to the Windows speech team. Windows Vista has the capability
built in, but it doesn't seem that the MS Speech time has done much on the Windows XP side going forward. You may want to see what
the folks the Speech discussion group might suggest using the link to that discussion group, below.

There are 3rd party products that tend to have more capability, across more apps, and with more language support, such as those at
http://nuance.com .

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<<"klingstin" <klingstin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4470D19A-DA44-42A3-AC4A-CB24C3FD3F69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Which Microsoft employee got hundreds of dollars for suggesting dropping the
Speech Recognition Tool in Office 2007 Ultimate, so that Microsoft can make
even more profit on their supposed Office Flagship? This is false economy, as
you have now disenfranchised some or all of your Small Business Customers who
have depended on this facility (provided in Office 2003) to help them
increase their productivity.>>
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Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

>>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<

LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.speech.desktop
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.speech.desktop

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com




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Relevant Pages

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