Thank you David. That was great help. Now it is been installed correctly and working :)
The setting of synchronous and Asynchronous flags make a whole lot of difference to the way these components work. TFE http://totallyfreeenergy.zxq.net > > Try searching for the sapi.dll. > > One my PC it's located in folder... > C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech > (and not C:\Windows\System32 or \Speech as you might expect) > > On the off chance that it did somehow get deleted... > restore it from your WinXP installation CD. > (WinXP is/was shipped with SAPI 5.1) > > You might also want to manually update your OS via IE > (Tools -> Windows Update [Express, then Custom]) > to ensure you have the most up to date version of SAPI. > > David >