Funny! Why does Microsoft try to develop this? Jakob Nielsen wrote a recent alert box about speech recognition software - he argues that the only reason we persist in developing speech recognition is because we've seen it in the movies and we think it's cool. I agree with him on this one - I remember using speech recognition on the first PowerMac ten years ago, and it was rubbish then. The evidence here is that it is still rubbish! Other interfaces (like mouse, keyboards, even touchscreens) are so much more efficient.
Perhaps if you could use it for limited basic things like controlling iTunes. "Pause!" "Find stairway to heaven" "Next!"
Typing is clearly not working but as you can see in the videoclip working with the popup dialogbox works just fine.
The voice recognition software could apply differently depending on what application is in focus. i.e. when iTunes is the topmost window, "Stop" means stop the song, when Firefox is the topmost window, "Stop" means stop loading the page.
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Funny! Why does Microsoft try to develop this? Jakob Nielsen wrote a recent alert box about speech recognition software - he argues that the only reason we persist in developing speech recognition is because we've seen it in the movies and we think it's cool. I agree with him on this one - I remember using speech recognition on the first PowerMac ten years ago, and it was rubbish then. The evidence here is that it is still rubbish! Other interfaces (like mouse, keyboards, even touchscreens) are so much more efficient.
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Perhaps if you could use it for limited basic things like controlling iTunes. "Pause!" "Find stairway to heaven" "Next!"
Typing is clearly not working but as you can see in the videoclip working with the popup dialogbox works just fine.
The voice recognition software could apply differently depending on what application is in focus. i.e. when iTunes is the topmost window, "Stop" means stop the song, when Firefox is the topmost window, "Stop" means stop loading the page.