Yes in recording devices i am using the built in mic on my laptop, it works fine for windows 7 speech recognition, also it is set as the default recording device, also i have checked the firmware is updated to latest and it is, plus speech recognition is not active when i try to use the ARC speech rec so ???? just strange how its the same on both laptops ?

Regards Kurt

(PS . do i have to select a listening device in ARC itself ? or does just setting my mic as the default device do that ?)

Setting your mic is enough. What is the exact error text you receive?

Basically i open ARC, connect to the ez board via bluetooth, so far so good, i then goto open speech recognition and i get the following error within ARC,

"Unable to start speech recognition, you either do not have an input device or your operating system is not supported"

Thats it, if i close that error speech recognition window does appear to edit etc etc but speech recognition doesnt work at all, like i said speech recognition within windows 7 does work fine, ie for opening programs, dictation etc etc, note i dont have speech recognition open when i use ARC but in any case i have tried it both ways, its exactlly the same on my other windows 7 laptop and also on a windows 7 machine at my work, so 3 in total, not tried it on windows xp as i read that its an issue anyways on xp. dunno what else to try really ??? thanks

Kurt

Side note 2 . so as well as my last post i have now installed on win xp and also installed the windows xp sdk 5.1 engine, connected to ez board and same issue, exact same text as on win 7, " Voice recognition was not able to start. There is either no listening device or the your operating system is not supported", so thats four different pc's now all with same issue ? starting to think me is goin mad lol.

Thanks Kurt

If you look at the documentation for the speech control by pressing the ? button, you will see it says the speech control doesn't work in XP. So ignore that.

As for your win 7, i'm kind of confused too. I can't diagnose our PC from here, so you might have to throw it out the window

Maybe there is some program you have running? Maybe you left the win 7 recognition enabled when loading ARC? Can't have both at the same time

hmm, this is gonna be one of those annoying things i fear, i have checked that speech recognition is not running, the only thing i have running on the pc is my antivirus and ARC when using it, but the other win 7 pc i have installed it on is as new out of the box nothing installed except ARC and the bluetooth dongle.. i will keep trying but if you think of anything plz gimme a shout

Thanks Kurt

1. load ARC

2. add DEBUG control -or- press F2

3. add Speech Recognition

4. press COPY on debug control

5. post the contents of the COPY message from debug control

Ok so good answer, when i started the debug console i noticed it said that the language didnt match ARCs language, so i have set my speech recognition to US not UK and hey ho we are working brilliant now so... go figure, thanks so much for the help DJ and everyone else it sure was a wierd one.

Thanks Kurt