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He is wrong about the accuracy of speech recognition. I know he is wrong because I have actually used Speech Recognition to get real work done. As have I. The

He is wrong about the accuracy of speech recognition. I know he is wrong because I have actually used Speech Recognition to get real work done. As have I. The dictation capability built in to Vista / Windows 7 is really quite amazing. (They both also have voice control.) I'm an extremely fast typer, but dictating - even with time spent correcting mistakes - is quite a bit faster.

ableal 16y ago
> dictation capability built in to Vista / Windows 7 I'll be ... yep, tucked well away under Accessories/Ease of Access. Who knew? (Six month old laptop w/ Win7, successor to an XP machine.) Needs setup and the, so-far unused, built-in mic is not cooperating. It does say it allows text dictation, besides OS voice control.
- WalterGR 16y ago
  I'll be ... yep, tucked well away under Accessories/Ease of Access. Who knew? And try this one on for size: Microsoft Office 2003 came with built-in voice control and dictation, which could also be used in other applications!
  - ableal 16y ago
    Thanks. I was just thinking "why don't they demo this" and then remembered - they did, back in 2006, and it went embarrassingly wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Speech_Recognition#cite_ref-5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Speech_Recognition#cite...
    - WalterGR 16y ago
      Yes, it did. But be careful: "In 2007, reports surfaced that Windows Speech Recognition could be used to remotely access and/or control a user's computer. Theoretically, playing a pre-recorded message containing Windows Speech Recognition commands could allow one to execute tasks on another computer remotely." Why, that reads like a Wikipedia article about a Microsoft product!
      - ableal 16y ago
        I think that anyone who ever gave a non-rigged demo will feel a painful twinge of sympathy for the engineer in that one - "There, but for the grace of God, go I" ... (And, yes, the "security" issue is pretty far-fetched but is factual, I remember it being raised.)

ableal 16y ago

> dictation capability built in to Vista / Windows 7 I'll be ... yep, tucked well away under Accessories/Ease of Access. Who knew? (Six month old laptop w/ Win7, successor to an XP machine.) Needs setup and the, so-far unused, built-in mic is not cooperating. It does say it allows text dictation, besides OS voice control.

WalterGR 16y ago
I'll be ... yep, tucked well away under Accessories/Ease of Access. Who knew? And try this one on for size: Microsoft Office 2003 came with built-in voice control and dictation, which could also be used in other applications!
- ableal 16y ago
  Thanks. I was just thinking "why don't they demo this" and then remembered - they did, back in 2006, and it went embarrassingly wrong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Speech_Recognition#cite_ref-5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Speech_Recognition#cite...
  - WalterGR 16y ago
    Yes, it did. But be careful: "In 2007, reports surfaced that Windows Speech Recognition could be used to remotely access and/or control a user's computer. Theoretically, playing a pre-recorded message containing Windows Speech Recognition commands could allow one to execute tasks on another computer remotely." Why, that reads like a Wikipedia article about a Microsoft product!
    - ableal 16y ago
      I think that anyone who ever gave a non-rigged demo will feel a painful twinge of sympathy for the engineer in that one - "There, but for the grace of God, go I" ... (And, yes, the "security" issue is pretty far-fetched but is factual, I remember it being raised.)