Take a look to the MS Agent control from microsoft. It allows to speach and use fancy animated pictures for that,a s well as it also allows recognition of commands. Nick Neklioudov did made an excellent sample for VFP and posted here for some time ago. Search it in the downloads section (or in the messages?)

>I am looking to add voice recognition to our software.
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>Is there a package out in the world that will either work at a vfp/ocx level or a off the shelf (comp-usa kind of thing) that others are using.
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>I am open to most anything.
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>Thanks,
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>-Greg