Do the following:
1) Turn Speech Recognition off.
2) Check to see if Sound Out in Sound Control Panel is set to 44 KHz.
If so, click 22 KHz setting.
3) Close Sound Control Panel and turn on Speech Recognition.
The Sound control panel should always be set to 22 KHz when using Speech Recognition. Setting Sound Out to 44.1kHz does not affect the audio off the CDs. Audio CDs just play through, the Sound Out settings are used for digital recording only.
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