Disable Windows 10 Speech Recognition Setup Wizard Hotkey

Question

To whomever has an answer,

I tried various web searches, but none seem to address this particular problem.

In a recent build of Windows 10, a hot key appears to have been added to start the Speech Recognition Setup Wizard.

The hotkey is Ctrl-Windows-S.

Speech Recognition has not been turned on or previously configured.

Note this is not the "turn on/turn off speech recognition hotkey", but starts the Setup Wizard (the same as using Start - Programs - Windows Ease of Access - Windows Speech Recognition).

However, we have a program a few years old that uses that Hotkey, and now has become inaccessible.  Is there a way to change this Hotkey (or disable its use by the Setup Wizard)?

Or to actually uninstall Speech Recognition (note as above, it is not turned on or enabled, it does not start with Windows, so those methods don't suppress this wizard from being called).

Edit: This is on a Dell built OptiPlex system running Windows 10 Professional.  It is not joined to a domain.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Yasir,

Unfortunately the article you linked refers to settings in Office XP and Windows 2000.   Those options and methods are long gone (Input Locales no longer exists as a setting that way).

An update to all:  It turns out this was added in build 1803 (April 2018) update to Windows 10.

The reference is found in Settings - Ease of Access - Speech, on the very bottom (under the checkbox to turn on/off Speech Recognition description).

Unfortunately, it is reference only, no option to disable the shortcut (like there is for the Narrator in Ease of Access).

I hope Microsoft can add a "disable/enable keyboard shortcut" for this setting like they did for Narrator.  I still have been able to find no way to disable or change it (such as a registry setting).

Answer 2

Hi,

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you, Thank you so much for your valuable question please, I would suggest you to please see the below mentioned article and see if it helps. I am hopeful that your query will be resolved, If the issue persists kindly do let me know,waiting for your kind reply please.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/326526...

Please let me know, if that helps and feel free to ask back any question.

Kind Regards:

Yasir