- Right-click the Language bar.
- Click Settings.
- Under Installed Services, click Speech under the language you are using, and then click Remove.
Notes
- Speech recognition requires computer memory and can impact your computer's performance, so you should remove it as a text service if you don't use it.
- Removing speech recognition does not delete it from your computer, it only removes it as an available text service and prevents it from being loaded into memory. You can add it again at any time.
- To remove the speech recognition engine from your hard disk, follow the instructions in the program with which it was installed, or use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel.
- If speech recognition is not available, it may not be installed. Click Related Topics for information about installing speech recognition.