I have been trying to figure this out for a long time and still have no idea what has happen to my speech recognition. Ok well you see when ever I goto turn on the speech recognition it doesn't load. The thing that usually pops up that shows it is listening doesn't show and when I hit ESC like you have to, to say a command it makes a normal sound like I am just holding the key down and not supposed to be. Is there anyway I can reload the speech recognition or has this happen to anyone else? This seems to be a very rare and weird problem and I don't know anyone else that has had this same problem. I just don't know where to start to get back my speech recognition. 