yep this worked i now have the ability to use speech hope it works for you and have fun btw if you run a clean install of windows without anything removed you can acess all of the inf files to install anything that is removed (at least i think so) from C:\WINDOWS\inf you need your origonal windows source files inorder to use any of the infs to use the inf just right click on it and click install it doesent matter where the inf is aparently im gonna have to upload the file somewhere since for somereason i cant upload it here i guess ill do that when i wake up the file you need is sapi5.inf it is actually also located on the install cd in a compressed cab sapi5.in_ so you can get it from their and maybe all the other infs i just realized that the infs would probbly be in the i386 folder but compressed