Speech Recognition Setup doesn't work

Question

When trying to enable Speech Recognition trough the Time & Language page, in the setup wizard when I have to say the quote "Peter talks to his computer. He prefers it to typing, and particularly prefers it to pen and paper." it doesn't do anything. When I say the quote, the progress bar shows that it detects my microphone input, but even after repeating myself 3 times, nothing happens. I'm using Windows 11, and before when using Windows 10, this worked fine. It's only after upgrading to Windows 11 I can't active it. What is happening? And how do I fix it?

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

I have the same issue:

I can use Windows icon+H and speech is recognised and converted to text, but when I run speech recognition in order to speak voice commands I get error code 0x80004003, context elevated

What do I do to fix this, please?

Answer 2

No I did not.

Answer 3

Hi,

Thanks for your post in Microsoft Community.

I understand that the wizard cannot recognize your voice when you use the voice recognition wizard.

This may be a problem with a system component, you can try running the command prompt as an administrator and execute the following command:

sfc /SCANNOW 

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth 

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth 

DISM /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth 

sfc /SCANNOW

Please feel free to let me know how it goes.

Kirk | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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Answer 4

Did you solve the problem ?

Answer 5

Hi!

I'm sorry for a very delayed answer. This still doesn't help. I've tried reinstalling language packs, and tampering with cortana permissions. Nothing seems to work. I have tested this on other 2 other devices. Only the one with Windows 11 Home worked. My computer, and the other Windows 11 Pro device didn't seem to work. I don't know if this has something to do with my problem, but I think it's worth adding. Please help.

Thanks in advance.