[minsc_tdp]

Fraggulus - the only thing I could possibly recommend there is to make sure to install Microsoft SAPI 5.1 SDK for Windows Vista, if such a thing exists. I know that Vista includes a new version of the speech engine, version 6.0+, and it's possible that hear.py is trying to hook into 5.1 which simply isn't there. It might work to just install it, who knows. I have Vista installed at home so I'll try to get it working there when I return. Possibly, some minor changes need to be made to hear.py to get it to just use the newer Vista speech engine instead of being stuck on 5.1.