mr_belowski your troubleshooting guide worked a treat. Downloaded the 64 zip and installed those packages. I am unable to locate the "AGC" at step 7. No error messages now but does not hear what i say. Have levels at 100.

15:29:58.191 : Listening for voice command...
15:29:58.200 : Opened channel - waiting for speech
15:29:58.209 : Getting audio from nAudio input stream
15:29:59.170 : Invoking speech recognition...
15:29:59.187 : Cancelling wait for speech
15:30:01.220 : No speech input was detected
15:30:01.656 : Playing sounds, events: acknowledge/didnt_understand
15:30:01.664 : (acknowledge/didnt_understand)
15:30:02.467 : *** Processed acknowledge/didnt_understand
15:32:22.259 : Application stopped
15:32:22.272 : Stopping queue monitor