I've been trying to do some testing with the Speech Recognition inside of Windows 7 for our firm.I had it working pretty well in Vista and was hoping Win7 would be even better. However - most recently I have been testing with Outlook 2010 (Beta). When I speak "Reply to All" or "New Email" and get the dialog box for new mail - all commands I speak after that seem to be "commands" and not "dictation". I have to click out of the email into something like IE or another App, then back to the composing email and then begin dictating. I'm not sure if this is a Beta 2010 issue or a speech recognition issue. I can't seem to find any setting in SR to control this behavior.Thanks for any help you can provide.David

Hi David,Can you let us know the detail version of your Outlook? According my experience, the Speech Recognitionworks fine in my Outlook 2010 beta.WhenI speak New Email, ablank email window wouldpop up, after that, it will take dictation from me.In my opinion,youcan move the cursor to thetest area with your mouse aftera new emailopened, then test if it can take dictation from you.In addition, you can test in a notepad. Sincerely! John

Hi David,It seems the issue is caused if the new email window is not activated after "reply to all" or "new email" command finished. Maybe you can try "Tab" command to get to content box of the window to see if we can start "type".Meanwhile test if same thing happened in Notepad to see if issue only occurs on Outlook or not.