How to start a speech?

How to start Speech Recognition on Vista?

• So... Just to clarify it before someone tells me to "Go into the different files in the folder"... Here is what it's like http://www.download.eeextra.net/speech.jpg So... There aren't any files to go to.. The link links to http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windowsvista/speech.aspx How can I open Speech Recognition? This isn't a screen shot from my computer, I found it on the web; but still it's the same as in my computer exept another language. It's taken in Control Panel > speech recognition options. Same folder as when you search 'speech' How can I open it?

• Answer:

  If you haven't already set up speech recognition, do so now. Go through the tutorial and then continue to step 2. Say: "Start listening. Open Notepad. Maximize that." If it doesn't understand you, don't waste time repeating yourself, and do it manually. Make random noises like laughing (lots of laughing- it should be the majority of the noise you make anyway), moaning, "ppppbbbhhhhhhtttt"-ing, burping, and saying random words (only occasionally- swear words work well for this) into the microphone. Every so often give it some time to catch up. Make sure it is done thinking by saying something simple like "butter", and if it comes up immediately, then continue. If it isn't then wait- if you don't your computer and/or speech recognition may crash, regardless of how great your computer is. When you have enough to amuse yourself (maybe one or two paragraphs), say "stop listening" and close speech recognition. Save the tect file in notepad, something like "random shiz". Open sound recorder and start recording- *read back* the text that speech recognition has left you, and laugh if you have to. When you've gotten to the end, stop recording and save that file with the same name as the text (in case you do many) with "read" on the end. Example, "random shiz read". Listen to yourself reading the random, epic story. If any of it makes a lick of sense, you've failed. Try again. If you laugh because it makes no sense what so ever and yet is epic and amazingly fail, you've won. Go make cookies and quote your favorite "sentence" for the rest of the day. YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN to people who ask what the heck you're talking about, or you'll look... really weird. Repeat if you want.