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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?"
My guess is that the marketer "showing off" the voice recognition didn't properly train the software before the demonstration. If he did do that then he obviously did not pick and test something that was at least known to work which is not a bad idea when you are doing product demos. The software obviously has much work left since it interpreted the two syllable sentence "select all." as 13 syllables "so double the killer delete select all" (while it did finally get "select all" where the hell did the rest of that come from?). I am suprised that Microsoft had so much confidence they would go on live TV with it.
This is one reason that I believe until software is done being fully tested and is fully released that someone technical and who knows the software inside and out (one of the developers) should be demonstrating the products. Leave the non technical marketers to demonstrate products that they can't mess up, kind of like the classes they had to take in college to get a marketing degree.
Hey, there is only one Return and it's not of the King, it's of the Jedi.
Maybe the voice recognition software was not properly trained. I had shit like that when I played with voice recogniton software before.
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