I remember Rainbow 6 III Black Arrow or something had very usable voice recognition for the solo game. You basically had a few commands like 'regroup,' 'go go g

I remember Rainbow 6 III Black Arrow or something had very usable voice recognition for the solo game. You basically had a few commands like 'regroup,' 'go go go,' 'hold this position' which worked out better than button commands. It seemed to disappear in subsequent Tom Clancy games but glad to hear they brought it back for Vegas. I think the key with speech recognition and natural language processing is to forget the HAL9000/StarTrek 'hello computer' nonsense, and focus on constrained domains augmented by other technologies. Touchpad keyboards are blatantly less usable than hard keyboards but by the time you factor in a) portability and b) auto-completion of words/urls/search-strings, then they become a more than viable alternative. People have incredibly adaptive linguistic skills, developers should harness this more IMO rather than be overly ambitious with NLP. That said I was very impressed with the accuracy of Google's voice search app. But like Jeff Atwood says, it's easier just to search normally.