I was never able to use the speech recognition in Vista because I have a dutch language version of Vista home premium. The problem is that the Vistsa OS expects a speech recognition engine that matches your installed OS language. (XP never had this requirement) So on my system Speech expects a dutch speech engine, but microsoft never made it for dutch. I don't know if microsoft made a speech engine for the german language. They did for other major languages, like spannish. I would need to upgrade to Vista Ultimate to be able to download additional language packs and select english as my default. Then Vista would be able to use the english language speech engine and allow me to talk to my pc. You would still need to say the english sentences though. You won't be able to say "Mach meine kurs..." and expect your vessel to turn.
Next time you get the chance to reinstall vista, think twice about which language you choose.
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