I just wanted to say thanks again Mark, cutting and pasting dictation from
wordpad to windows works word processor Worked, still don't understand why
they could not of put text to speech in their main word program in Vista, I
suppose it is a way for MS to make us spend more money on buying word
programmes.

and I will check out the website, still haven't done that yet.
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andy t


"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> Works word processor does not function with Vista Speech Recognition text
> input. There are a number of other products that can handle it.
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> Another work around might be to paste the wordpad text into Works after
> dictation.
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> "andy t" <andyt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2DE715A6-BCAF-487B-8647-2CA7D5CDCD7B@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for the reply Mark,
> >
> > I have the new Windows Vista Home Premium and I don't seem to have MS
> > word,
> > instead I have MS "Works word processor" which seems to have taken it's
> > place. I went to this, clicked on the " tools menu" like you said, but
> > there
> > was no "speech" on this menu. As I said, Dictation works Great on wordpad
> > and
> > notepad, but not on Windows works word processor. It seems like MS has
> > Favoured "Wordpad" for dictating but Wordpad has'nt Got things like "spell
> > check" ," grammar and punctuation" or "Thesaurus" . there must be a way
> > to
> > do this, have you any other ideas??
> > --
> > andy t
> >
> >
> > "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
> >
> >> Open Word, and click the 'Tools' menu, then 'Speech'.
> >>
> >> --
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> >> http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm
> >> Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
> >> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Mark.Ferguson
> >>
> >> "andy t" <andyt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:5E1029FD-77E4-4F75-A741-C735A264AF23@microsoft.com...
> >> > Please can a MVP help me, I have just got the new Windows Vista,
> >> > complete
> >> > with the speech recognition program. I should explain that I am
> >> > disabled
> >> > and
> >> > cannot use my hands. I am so pleased at the progress made on speech
> >> > recognition.
> >> >
> >> > However, I have found that dictation or text to speech, works really
> >> > well
> >> > in
> >> > wordpad and notepad, but I can't seem to get it to work with other text
> >> > input
> >> > programmes such as Windows word, Windows works word processor or other
> >> > non
> >> > Windows Programmes such as Google Earth. When I try to dictate in these
> >> > programmes, all speech recognition can do is bring up commands, and my
> >> > use
> >> > of
> >> > dictation or text to speech is no more.
> >> >
> >> > I am sure that it is a configuration problem and an easy solution for
> >> > you
> >> > experts out there, I sure would like an answer to this, it would be
> >> > much
> >> > appreciated if any MVP's could help me??. For a person like me, it
> >> > would
> >> > be
> >> > like a dream come true.
> >> >
> >> > Thanking you in advance
> >> > --
> >> > andy t
> >>