Vista speech recognition sounds good to me

VistavoicerecIn case you didn’t hear, the latest Vista speech recognition bombed on the stage.  Lucky for us, Long Zheng had time to do his own demo.  Using an M400 tablet PC and the latest Vista build, Long provides a very impressive demo of speech recognition.  I have to say I’m extremely impressed; not only is the recognition much more accurate, but the usage of speech goes far beyond basic dictation at this point.

This 5 minute video is a must see for you to begin to understand just how far speech recognition has come.  From multi-window and mouse navigation to complete dictation and total control of Windows, Vista’s speech technology is already exceeding my expectations.  In fact, I spoke this entire post using the same beta built that Long used. Reads pretty good, no? Plus it was actually quicker to dictate this than type or ink it!

I especially like the way Vista handles a spoken word that appears in multiple places. If you want to correct the word "that", for example and the word "that" is showing in several locations on the screen, Vista covers each instance with a number. Simply speak the number of the word you want to choose and say OK. It’s "that" easy.

-kct

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