Windows Vista speech recognition - the whole story

While I don't particularly like Microsoft, and found the Vista speech recognition gone wrong clip a good joke, several Microsoft blogger pointed out the that it was a case of selective media editing. I was interested in getting the whole story so I downloaded the 70mb MSFT Financial Analyst Meeting 2006: Steve Ballmer clip from here http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speech/FY06/BallmerFAM2006.mspx

Knowing there were probably others who wanted to see it but didn't wish to retrive the whole file, I cut it to show the entire speech recognition part. If you haven't yet seen the CNBC selectively edited clip, I suggest you watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ Having seen this, while I still find the original clip funny, it's clear the bigger joke is on CNBC for their selective, misleading editing and (rather silly as well) commentary...

The issues and reasons for the failure are discussed here
http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2006/07/27/680749.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/robch/archive/2006/07/28/681467.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2006/07/31/684327.aspx
http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/archive/2006/08/01/1672.aspx

I'm not 100% sure on the copyright status, I hope that since Microsoft makes the entire clip available on their website and the CNBC selectively edited/misleading clip is available, they won't mind. If they do, tell me and I will remove it ASAP.

N.B. As I hope I made clear above. I am NOT associated in any way shape or form with Microsoft, so please don't accuse me of being so

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• recognition
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• CNBC
• editing

[deadspirit90]

double the killer

lol

[InnebandyMalvakt]

double the killer lol

[RDHZAL]

Voice recognition should be attached to one person, there are different accents in the world of different accents, therefore voice recognition will never be perfected, unless there was a software program that adjusted to your voice as you talk.

I dont think they would be really easy to make.

[PullusPardus]

last time i saw this video was when Vista was coming out, and still puzzles me, why he says "Dewete that" instead of "Delete That"

[TallestSkil]

@9rockky It's a shame Siri doesn't fix your grammar for you.

[9rockky]

Siri better.

[TheWONDERBOYZ1]

speech recognition is bad...

[BarbaricGoose]

@BarbaricGoose This comment brought to you by Windows 7 speech function. I turned it on, set my mic next to the speaker, and Windows 7 transcribed the audio with effortless precision.

[BarbaricGoose]

Janet Leigh so if you have a lot of them is the with the outgoing hear what he saw both committee control of the PC as well as the patience of this is really unlocking the markets for us the thing about 1/4 accessibility am working with PCs as well as in some markets where a young keyboard input can you give the holder hasn't really been the norm Susie think about what the handwriting recognition voice recognition unlocking a kid of the leasing markets will face and.

[DevilMaster]

@NonCorosiveAcid Visual Basic 6, Windows XP, Windows 7. And maybe VB6 was working a little too well for them, so much that people kept using it instead of buying newer products, so they decided to make it artificially incompatible with Windows 8.

[SoulHeart12345]

select all doesnt work, i tryed it