Unable to start Speech Recognition tool

Hi,

I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 Laptop, and have had it for about 6 months. Just
today I found the Speech Recognition tool. I went through the tutorial and
everything with no problems. However, when I try to launch the tool itself,
it goes to "sleep" for a second then shows "off" on the screen. When I right
click on it and click on "On", I get a dialog box that says "Please restart
Speech Recognition: Speech Recognition encountered an error. Please restart
Speech Recognition to ensure that you can continue to use Speech
Recognition." I have shut down the program many times, but always get the
dialog box. I have even restarted my computer, and still got the dialog box.
Has anyone had this happen?

You are probably having some problem loading your sound driver. I would try
refreshing that.

You experience problems with sound after you install Windows Vista Service
Pack 1: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948481
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"Nate H" <Nate > wrote in message
news:3F5EE525-E720-47A3-A8C8-...
> Hi,
>
> I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 Laptop, and have had it for about 6 months.
> Just
> today I found the Speech Recognition tool. I went through the tutorial
> and
> everything with no problems. However, when I try to launch the tool
> itself,
> it goes to "sleep" for a second then shows "off" on the screen. When I
> right
> click on it and click on "On", I get a dialog box that says "Please
> restart
> Speech Recognition: Speech Recognition encountered an error. Please
> restart
> Speech Recognition to ensure that you can continue to use Speech
> Recognition." I have shut down the program many times, but always get the
> dialog box. I have even restarted my computer, and still got the dialog
> box.
> Has anyone had this happen?

I forgot to add that I am using Vista Home Premium (I don't know if that
matters). I have not updated to SP!. How do I refresh the sound driver?
The sound on my computer seems to be working fine for everything else. Could
it be an isolated incident affecting only the Speech Recognition Tool?

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> You are probably having some problem loading your sound driver. I would try
> refreshing that.
>
> You experience problems with sound after you install Windows Vista Service
> Pack 1: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948481
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> Please use the Communities guidelines when posting.
> http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm
> Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Mark.Ferguson
>
> "Nate H" <Nate > wrote in message
> news:3F5EE525-E720-47A3-A8C8-...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Lenovo 3000 N100 Laptop, and have had it for about 6 months.
> > Just
> > today I found the Speech Recognition tool. I went through the tutorial
> > and
> > everything with no problems. However, when I try to launch the tool
> > itself,
> > it goes to "sleep" for a second then shows "off" on the screen. When I
> > right
> > click on it and click on "On", I get a dialog box that says "Please
> > restart
> > Speech Recognition: Speech Recognition encountered an error. Please
> > restart
> > Speech Recognition to ensure that you can continue to use Speech
> > Recognition." I have shut down the program many times, but always get the
> > dialog box. I have even restarted my computer, and still got the dialog
> > box.
> > Has anyone had this happen?
>