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14 November 2006

Who says talking to your Computer doesn’t Help?

Filed under: Microsoft — Ian Hulme @ 12:26 pm

Improved Speach Recognition is one of the Features coming with Windows Vista, enabling the user to open, close, and use programs; navigate around the screen; explore the Web; and create documents.

A lot of work has been put into Speach Recognition to make it “useable”, Other versions I have used tended to take lots of time to set up, and would still get things wrong, and I would eventually just bang away on the keyboard as usual. Vista has improved the recognition of custom or unusual words making it more accurate. One of the main points is that the user can actually use the computer with Speach Recognition for general operations such as opening programs, even mouse movement, and not just for typing now.

Click here to view a demonstration.

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