I have Windows XP Home. I am using my speech recognition tool to write this message . Speech recognition works everywhere but in Birder's Diary. I have downloaded all of the MS Agent files MicroSoft has to offer. I even reinstalled the OS. When I ask Petey to listen, a little box informs me that "Petey cannot listen." The voice commands box says, "Speech input is not available in English." Is there a file somewhere that needs to be added to Petey's profile so that he can understand English?

Please help.

Jamie

Hello Jamie,

Microsoft's MSAgent functionality does not coexist well with other speech recognition software. My experience is that Petey will not work with other such software installed most of the time.

You seem to doing the right things in terms of downloading the MSAgent stuff (no longer supported by MS).

My thoughts are, that if any solution can be achieved, that you will need to bring up the speech dialog from the control panel. Getting this speech dialog to work there will be key. It probably involves setting the speech engine to something that will probably break your other recognition software.

In the end, after you have exhausted the above, a call to Microsoft ($fee$) might be the only thing that could get you going again.

If you do resolve this somehow, please post back and let the rest of us know. Sorry to be of little help on this, however supporting MSagent has been a losing battle. It works most of the time, up and until someone installs 3rd party speech software as you have done.

Jeff