Windows – Delphi 7 and Windows Vista

Individual components of a filename (i.e. each subdirectory along the path, and the final filename) are limited to 255 characters, and the total path length is limited to approximately 32,000 characters.

However, on Windows, you can't exceed MAX_PATH value (259 characters for files, 248 for folders). See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx for full details.

I found out that there is a way to enable speech recognition in all programs, even those that don't support it, simply by going to the options of Windows Speech Recognition and selecting Enable dictation everywhere. However when you use this to dictate into an editbox that doesn't use the Text Services Framework, it always pops up the Alternates Panel which displays the prompt Say the number next to the item you want, followed by OK. While this may work for short sentences, it does not have many of the useful features such as correcting or deleting a word.