new installed DW

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I think that your German Windows uses a German Speech engine and so expects a German voice. But the Game commands are in English. So it naturally fails to understand what is said. The legal way is to upgrade to Windows (7) Ultimate. Which has the ability to choose different language packs. And once you have the English language pack for Windows installed (not sure if the UK or US pack makes a difference), you can also choose the English speech engine in the advanced options of Speech Recognition. But you can't have both the German and English language pack working together at the same time. Iirc you have to reboot to switch, so this may be more cumbersome than you want.

I don't know if there is a less legal way to install the language packs. And if there is, I doubt I am allowed to mention it here. But I don't know a current one anyway. (2 years ago I tried something for Vista) You'll have to resort to Google for it.