That’s quite an annoying limitation. I haven’t used Vista speech yet and I was looking forward to not rhyming “a” with “Hogmanay” and “the” with “Dundee”, and creating a special word pronounced “perry odd” to mean “not the end of the sentence”. I’m told the new speech facilities are greatly improved otherwise as well. But cross off one of the advantages?

I wonder if this can be worked around by triggering some sort of macros with a “run program” voice command? Or is that what is broken? I have also been enjoying using a product called AutoHotkey which can make Windows do clever things including rewriting what you type, but when I looked last it was not speech friendly yet – but you could run it as a command.