I thought these were cute ...

[Andyistic]

When you do the Voice Recognition deal in Vista, it works perfectly, or
close to perfectly.
It completely responds to all your voice commands.

When you try to do Voice Recognition on your own without the tutorial
running, no such luck. I tried and tried to get the stupid thing to work,
but to no avail.
To prove to myself that I am not alone on this, I found these two morsals:

Microsoft demo==>

Perl programming ==>

Microsoft needs to do some serious work on this "feature".
It just doesn't work yet.

-- Andy

 

[Frank]

When you do the Voice Recognition deal in Vista, it works perfectly, or
close to perfectly.
It completely responds to all your voice commands.

When you try to do Voice Recognition on your own without the tutorial
running, no such luck. I tried and tried to get the stupid thing to work,
but to no avail.
To prove to myself that I am not alone on this, I found these two morsals:

Microsoft demo==>

Perl programming ==>

Microsoft needs to do some serious work on this "feature".
It just doesn't work yet.

-- Andy

hehehe...it really appears that the program is smarter than the users.
MS probably needs to "dumb down" the program to the stupidity level of
said users.
Frank

 

[Robert Firth]

It is highly accurate when I dictate to it. You have to be sure that you
speak clearly and don't mumble. Listen to the playback it provides of what
it heard. You might then understand why it thought you said something else.
Sometimes it will break works apart into phrases, but when you re-listen to
what you said, you can understand why.

I suppose regional speech differences will affect it as well.

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* Windows Vista x86 RTM *
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[Alan]

Thanks for those links, Andyistic. Those videos were funnier than anything
I've seen on TV in the past year. :>

Alan

 

[Pumpkin]

When you do the Voice Recognition deal in Vista, it works perfectly, or
close to perfectly.
It completely responds to all your voice commands.

When you try to do Voice Recognition on your own without the tutorial
running, no such luck. I tried and tried to get the stupid thing to work,
but to no avail.
To prove to myself that I am not alone on this, I found these two morsals:

Microsoft demo==>

Perl programming ==>

Microsoft needs to do some serious work on this "feature".
It just doesn't work yet.

-- Andy

Wow, that's pretty amazing, I was laughing until about half way through the
2nd video, then it just got sad. Did they not test the software before
realeasing to an suspecting public?

 

[NoStop]

Wow, that's pretty amazing, I was laughing until about half way through
the
2nd video, then it just got sad. Did they not test the software
before realeasing to an suspecting public?

As is typical with Microsoft the public are the testers. So, yes, it's being
tested as we speak, by all those dumb enough to run out and "upgrade" their
systems to Vista.

Cheers.

 

[Eric]

As is typical with Microsoft the public are the testers. So, yes, it's
being
tested as we speak, by all those dumb enough to run out and "upgrade"
their
systems to Vista.

Cheers.

I guess you're not a computer programmer.
Often in writing new programs, you can test 1000 times and not crash. Then
some user presses some key or inputs some data that you never thought anyone
would ever do. It could take weeks, months, or years of testing to try
every possible key and every possible data on a programming change,
depending on the complexity of that change. Changing any little thing in an
OS is much more significant, and someone is bound to crash it no matter how
long you test it. No OS to my knowledge was ever flawless on it's initial
release.

After several years and numerous patches, XP is as close to flawless as an
OS can get. If Vista is as close after a couple years, it can be considered
a success.
No one in their right mind should upgrade to Vista right now if their
current OS is not having major issues, unless they need to test Vista to get
familiar with it to be able to help others with it. Getting Vista on a new
PC is probably a good idea, but don't expect it to work perfectly until it's
been out a year or more.