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With Vista speech recognition you can dictate to Microsoft Word, you can
dictate to internet explorer, you can dictate to Outlook but not to Firefox
or Thunderbird. Yet, the speech recognition program can communicate with
these other programs. If you say a link in Firefox it will go to it, and you
can spell out something a letter at a time, so you could go to the location
bar and say, "Spell g o o g l e dot c o m" and that will work. And if you
can do that, then clearly speech recognition is listening and knows how to
interact with the program.
So is this just Microsoft trying to shut out all non-Microsoft products?
Because that would be pretty stupid; making a program that everyone says
compares horribly with Dragon Naturally Speaking even less useful. But
that's the only really sensible explanation that comes to mind.
Is this Microsoft just being super Microsofty?
dictate to internet explorer, you can dictate to Outlook but not to Firefox
or Thunderbird. Yet, the speech recognition program can communicate with
these other programs. If you say a link in Firefox it will go to it, and you
can spell out something a letter at a time, so you could go to the location
bar and say, "Spell g o o g l e dot c o m" and that will work. And if you
can do that, then clearly speech recognition is listening and knows how to
interact with the program.
So is this just Microsoft trying to shut out all non-Microsoft products?
Because that would be pretty stupid; making a program that everyone says
compares horribly with Dragon Naturally Speaking even less useful. But
that's the only really sensible explanation that comes to mind.
Is this Microsoft just being super Microsofty?