Windows 10: Magnifier & Speech Recognition problems

I'm trying to assist a vision-impaired man. His vision is such that he has a guide dog. He bought a pc with the understanding that Vision Australia would assist with setup and training. Their funding was cut and so no support is available.

Problem 1: the docked view of the magnifier (at 400%) has moved to a left vertical panel. I've not been able to move it despite many different tactics.

Problem 2: when using the lens magnifier (at 400%), neither the mouse wheel nor the scroll bar on the screen are operational. We have to turn off the lens magnifier to scroll down a website page! Of course, without the magnifier, the screen is a blur for him. We then turn the magnifier on again, so he can read that section of the page.

Problem 3: After having gone thru the training (twice!) so the pc should recognise his voice and buying a new $50 headset with microphone, he is still not able to dictate instructions to the pc. Voice Recognition is virtually useless as only very occasionally it will work.

If someone can help with any of these problems, I'd be so, so grateful.
Jean

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Windows Speech Recognition

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would require more information to help you better.

Are facing any issue with speech recognition?

I would suggest you to follow the steps to see Advance speech options.

• Press Windows+X key on the keyboard
• Click on control panel
• Select speech recognition
• On the left hand pane you will see Advance speech option
  

I would also suggest you to refer to the below link:

How to use Speech Recognition

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IN/windows-8/using-speech-recognition

(Step applies to Windows 10 as well)

Hope this information helps and let us know if you have any further queries related to Windows we will be glad to help you.

 

Speech Recognition

Hi Peter,

It appears that you're having concerns with the speech recognition on your Windows 10 computer. For us to properly assist you, kindly verify the following:

• Are you having problems using the speech recognition? If yes, kindly provide us the detailed description.
• What troubleshooting steps have you done to troubleshoot the problem?
• Have you tried checking for available Windows updates?
  

We're looking forward to your response.

 

No speech recognition at all


Hi, this may be of interest:
Installing additional language packs for Windows 10 speech recognition random ranting

This has downloads, + a complete list of languages availablefor Win 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/down....aspx?id=27224
(but note the date)

fwiw I just tried it- my locale, speech, display language etc are set to UK English. (Which took some doing this time, or something was slightly messed up).

If I type speech in Cortana's search box, say, I get Windows Speech Recognition as top search.

I use Classic Shell, with the Control Panel expanded, so in a second or less I can see 'Speech Recognition' listed there.

Similarly, if I type 'Speech' in Settings I can easily see Speech Recognition.
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With the speech recognition bar displayed, task manager shows:
SpeechRuntime.exe in C:\Windows\System32\Speech_OneCore\Common ..........

sapisvr.exe in C:\Windows\Speech\Common

running.

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Some (older) search results:

I came across this for Win 7
Speech Recognition - Language Configuration is Not Supported Error Fix - Windows 7 Help Forums
- maybe there's an updated one here (see Tutorials).

There are a couple of helpful links at the end of this (but Win 7 again)
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...c-cb0ae84c939d