I use the speech engine in Office XP but now every time I try to initiate the program from Control Panel/ Speech I get the message " The requested task cannot be carried out because the necessary engine could not be created. Please select a different engine and/or a different audio device" The speech properties window gives only one engine Microsoft English ASR Version 5 any attempt to reset the microphone gives the same error message. I do have a language bar in Word and the microphone is active but speaking into the microphone gives sound from the speakers! I have reinstalled the whole of Office and uninstalling and reinstalling speech to try to correct the problem but to no avail. I think some entry must be left in the registry (maybe my a corrupted speech files or speech engine settings) I do not know much about editing the registry so if this is the likely problem can anyone offer help on how to proceed? Gordon ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************