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Vista Speech Recognition Goes Awry
An anonymous reader writes "It seems even MSNBC is willing to take a jab on those rare occasions when Microsoft products don't work. During a demo of Vista's speech recognition technology, Vista couldn't differentiate between mom and aunt, and all attempts to rectify the problem just made it worse. Wait until you see what it spat out, I think we have a new 'All your base.' Don't you just love Microsoft's live demonstrations?"
Here is a different perspective on why speech recognition STILL sucks;
Natural language interaction is one of BillG's hot buttons. Back in 95 he used to love demonstrating with poly the parrot. Polly the parrot could recognize speech and react to it - like "play miles davis". He demo'd it many times, and yes, it occasionally glitched but the potential was pretty cool. When he built his house, he put speech recognition technology all through it, thinking that it would be perfected very soon.
WTF happened? Well along came this distraction called 'the internet' and 'netscape'. And then another distraction called 'open source' and 'linux'. As a result of those distractions it set natural language recognition back 10 years. Yep, this is case where competition has stifled a particular innovation. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, maybe competition encouraged 5 other innovations, but I am positive it stifled this one in particular.
Just a different thing to think about...
slashdot troll = you make a compelling argument I do not like the implications of.
How on Earth is it MS's fault that speech recognition isn't better? They don't even compete in that market.
You are an idiot.
Umm are you just selling Dragon now? I'm quite sure the demonstration video wasn't using Dragon. So thanks for the info but he Vista obviously still needs training.