In a simple search of "speech to text" in my Help and Support (Windows XP Home ED)it provided the following:
To remove speech recognition
Open Regional and Language Options in Control Panel.
On the Languages tab, under Text services and input languages, click Details.
Under Installed services, click Voice Recognition under the language you are using, and then click Remove.
Notes
To open Regional and Language Options, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Regional and Language Options.
Speech recognition requires computer memory and can affect your computer's performance, so you should remove it as a text service if you do not use it.
Removing speech recognition does not delete it from your computer, it only removes it as an available text service and prevents it from being loaded into memory. You can add it again at any time.
To remove the speech recognition engine from your hard disk, follow the instructions in the program with which it was installed, or use Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
Peggy Tischhauser
Magalia CA
--- On Wed 05/19, Tom Mayer < [log in to unmask] > wrote:
From: Tom Mayer [mailto: [log in to unmask]]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:15:58 -0700
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Microphone madness
I had the same problem with Word XP on a Windows XP Home laptop. When in<br>Word the program would start adding text on its own from sound off a nearby<br>TV. It's been a while so I can't give you exact directions, but I found the<br>place to turn off the "speech (sound) to text" feature buried about five<br>levels deep in one of the menus for Word XP. It can be done. While I was at<br>it, I also found out how to turn off the "speech to text" feature in Windows<br>XP.<br><br>Good hunting.<br><br>Tom Mayer<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Will Stephenson" <[log in to unmask]><br>To: <[log in to unmask]><br>Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 8:16 AM<br>Subject: [PCSOFT] Microphone madness<br><br><br>Hello!<br><br>I have a client with an interesting problem (laptop with Windows XP home):<br>when he is typing in Word (XP), sometimes the program freezes for a few<br>seconds, then throws all the typed letters onto the screen all in a rush.<br>Stranger yet, sometimes letters appear that he hasn't even typed! My<br>immediate suspicion was an overactive microphone.<br><br>As we went through (over the phone) the various settings places in XP for<br>sound and microphone (volume icon in the system tray, sound and audio in<br>control panel, language in control panel), I found that there seemed to be<br>no way to actually turn the microphone off (the mute button was not able to<br>be unchecked). Since we were on the phone, I followed on my system and found<br>the same results.<br><br>The questions: Is there a way to turn a microphone off (we have turned sound<br>off completely which seems to do the trick)? And is there some setting in<br>Windows or in Word that controls this speech to text phenomena? There seems<br>to be no taskbar language bar issues here - again, that I can find.<br><br>Thanks for your help and thoughts!<br><br>Will Stephenson<br>mailto:[log in to unmask]<br><br> Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to<br> Digest mode - visit our web site:<br> http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml<br><br> Do you want to signoff PCSOFT or just change to<br> Digest mode - visit our web site:<br> http://freepctech.com/pcsoft.shtml<br>
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