Windows speech recognition problem

I am trying out windows speech recognition but it seems to slow down Firefox? Scrolling becomes very slow and jumpy and selecting things is slow also. This doesn't happen on Internet Explorer or anywhere else for that matter.
I've disabled my addons to no effect.

Hi techpadawan1,
Windows Speech Recognition files are saved in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Speech\Files, and also under C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Speech.
The training files are located in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Speech\Files so you can see that it is not a roaming folder.
Also I found a tool “Speech Recognition Profile Manager Tool”
You could use it to import/export to specific folder and it only take few seconds.
Warm remainder：large size file file roaming will cause slow user logon, and some times it will take minitus to log into user interface.
Regards

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Hi,
Please note that I am reporting a problem happened on a different computer than the one that I am now using to submit this report.
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OS: Windows 7 Pro (with all the Windows Updates installed as of Aug 21, 2014)
Browser: Mozilla Firefox 31.0 (most current version as of Aug 21, 2014)
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I have a strange problem.
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