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serishema
The Last Hacker Chick

Windows Vista speech recognition rocks!
I have to write up a big assignment but I hurts to type because of RSI. So I've been talking to my computer for the past couple of hours, dictating my assignment. It is doing surprisingly well, most voice recognition systems can't understand the kiwi accent. But Mr. Wallace recognition handles this fine.

I am very impressed, I actually made this post by voice.

I really had to type to logon, and click a mouse ones to activate the post body field.

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

serishema wrote:
Windows Vista speech recognition rocks!
I have to write up a big assignment but I hurts to type because of RSI. So I've been talking to my computer for the past couple of hours, dictating my assignment. It is doing surprisingly well, most voice recognition systems can't understand the kiwi accent. But Mr. Wallace recognition handles this fine.

I am very impressed, I actually made this post by voice.

I really had to type to logon, and click a mouse ones to activate the post body field.

yeah it's really good. I wonder why Microsoft doesn't advertize it as it should since it's one of the few killer features of Vista.

a lot of people are interested in voice recognition however nobody I spoke with knows that Vista ships with it.

if Microsoft placed voice recognition icons in more visible places, not hidden in control panel or in the "Accessibility" folder where people upgrading from XP would never go looking (because on XP that folder was used only for functionalities for impaired users) probably more people will discover and start using it.

By the way MS could mandate that with every Vista Premium PC sold a headset should be bundled to make this functionality even more popular Cool

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esoteric
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I tried it as well. It's the best I've tried, but I'm not quite ready to switch over to it entirely, for dictation. Smiley

It also works very well with Internet Explorer.

Refrax

please don't talk about it. then the other vendors will try and get Microsoft to remove/cripple it so they can sell their products.

Nitz Walsh

Yeah, it's odd how little MS trumps up this feature. No other commercial desktop OS has built-in dictation, while MacOS can assign voice commands to OS actions, you have to purchase dictation software.

It's a unique feature to Vista and I hardly see any reviews mention it.