Hi Scott, The very first thing to check is hardware - namely, ensure that the microphone is properly connected and assigned. Robert On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Scott Shade <fabian754@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Okay folks, this one stumps me, and I've multiple things going on with > this pc, so it might well be something in my system I can't fix > immediately. I'm getting this error. > > Error starting Speech Engine - #5 > Error: 5 - Cannot Start Speech Engine. > Description: Configuration system failed to initialize > Please try re-starting your computer. > If that does not work, please check your Speech Recognition set up. > The application will close when you press the OK button. > OK > > Now, as near as I can tell, my speech recognition, and text to speech > settings are fine, so I'm a tad confounded by this one. No Robert, I > hadn't looked at the faq yet, as I've never had this issue come up before, > and this installation has been good for nearly a year and a half on this > system. I'm using windows 7 64 bit home edition. Any thoughts, or > comments? Thanks much for your help, folks. > Blind and Visually impaired Pilots mailinglist > //www.freelists.org/list/**bvipilots<//www.freelists.org/list/bvipilots> > To post a message to the list, send a message to > bvipilots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe, send a message to > bvipilots-request@freelists.**org <bvipilots-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and > put the word unsubscribe in the subject of your message. > For other options such as digest, send a message to > bvipilots-request@freelists.**org <bvipilots-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and > put the word help in the subject of your message. > -- AOPA Member No: 06936977