[minsc_tdp]

I've found a simple solution that not only increases the recognition speed by about 10x, but also eliminates the extra window. I'll have that in tonight, along with the tube fix above. The 100x improvement is just the time between when the Python script catches it to when the Perl script notices it, which is already only about 1/10th of a second, but now it will be 1/100th of a second. It also fixes the rare chomp() error that causes the Perl script to not catch the command from the Python script. I can't believe I didn't do this to begin with, it solves so much.

Keep in mind the biggest factor in the speed of recognition is the settings in Control Panel > Speech. There's a slider that says fast/loose or slow/accurate. Try to make it fast but test test test...