Vista speech recognition - the big surprise

Surprise surprise. Windows Vista speech recognition actually works. Contrary to what MSNBC criticize as a "wreck," the speech recognition technology is well developed and highly usable.

Is Microsoft is intentionally trying to lower our expectations with Vista so when it finally does come out the public will be blown away? Scary...

From the source of this video:
"I got my hands on the July CTP build (5472) of Windows Vista and gave it a try, and I recorded what I found. I used the internal microphone array in my laptop, so the sound quality is not optimal but Vista handled it well."

"In addition: There is a whole lot more to speech recognition than what I have demonstrated. Even many basic features that I haven't demonstrated, like spelling out a name or technical word. So don't think what you see is what you get, having said that, the possibilities of speech recognition in a Tablet PC or Media Centre is mind-blowing. I thank everyone who enjoyed the video."

"In addition addition: A lot of people also noticed that I had to repeat a bit of what I said. This is primarily my fault. In the speech control panel, you would often see a blue rotating circle. This is to indicate the speech recogniser is currently busy checking what is on-screen. Also, Camtasia the screen recording tool is very CPU intensive, so there was less processing power was available for the speech recogniser. I sometimes spoke too quickly between commands, so it hasn't fully analysed all the available options yet. "

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Tags:

• vista
• speach
• recongition
• screencast
• beta
• july
• ctp
• build5472
• Toshiba
• Portege
• M400
• Apple
• Mac
• OSX
• Leopard

[bougabouga]

i can already see people playing cod5 with this 'SHOT TO THE HEAD!' NO SHOOT TO THE HEAD!' 'STOP MISSING AND SHOOT TO THE FUCKING HEAD , NO NOT HIM! GOD DAM IT'

[rayrevalee]

seems pretty useless, lol about porn..."TImmy what did you say in there?"

Timmy:"open gag sluts.wmv, OPEN GAG SLUTS.WMV!!!"..."oh nothing mom, just browsing hands free.

[Technobanana]

.....the only thing I can see this would be useful for would be browsing porn.

[FlyingCows88]

im watching your video with speech recognition... it sucks unlike you say

[Iambenjoz]

@rayrevalee What an awesome comment. :D

[IntampestusNox]

@Foolige But he doesn't move his mouse!

[Foolige]

I want to see your hands.

[BrainSeepsOut]

@GoNinty So? Your computer won't mind if you do the setup part correctly.

[GoNinty]

Im trying this but I have 2 problems.

1. My house is ALWAYS noisy! *Looks at family*

2. I have a Northern Ireland accent which is weird sounding :P

[fugudacat]

I'm doing this with speech recognition and it's very easy.

It just takes a little bit of practice and I can speak pretty fluent and it doesn't have a problem.

To actually a lot of fun surfing the Internet hands free.

I have an ad on program that lets me create macros. LULZ LULZ LULZ... LOL

[schmidtbag]

unfortunately the reason for microsoft to develop this is so that program won't be used anymore. anything that isn't a game and has some practical or popular value to it, microsoft will make their own version of it to defeat the competition

[charleskesler]

If you have Vista Basic, you don't have the 3d switch. If you have Vista Premium or higher, I don't know what the problem is.