Comments on: Vista speech recognition sucks…

By: Kody Gilbert

Kody Gilbert — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:14:54 +0000

did your cpu usage really go up that high?

By: imad

imad — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:26:08 +0000

tanck…………..

By: oliver

oliver — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:13:17 +0000

We realize this is slow, and it’s painful to wait for speech to number all the items here.
BUT, this works really well if you play with the smaller version of Minesweeper (Beginner).
Plus, you’ll learn something when you do this. Do this:
Open Minesweeper
Say Beginner
Then say Show Numbers
Pick one, say OK
then check out the text feedback area in Windows Vista Speech Recognition
You’ll see that it’ll tell you what to say next time (it actually teaches you to be more efficient at using speech in the future)
Then, instead of saying show numbers, say row 4 column 6, or some such thing
And you’ll see that speech is actually quite cool for playing minesweeper.
Still, there is a major drawback: the columns and rows aren’t numbered, so you have to count them yourself.
Playing games wasn’t a scenario we really focused on when we created Vista Speech Recognition. For future versions, we’ve added a flag to the system to allow other applications to see that speech is running. These applications can then optimize their functionality for speech. In the case of Minesweeper, this may mean numbering columns and rows when they notice speech is running.

By: blindfaith

blindfaith — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:57:46 +0000

I think it’s pretty pathetic that the only thing Vista has going for it is some hardware intensive visual effects that add zero functionality, a few stolen “widgets”, and a virgin (i.e. brand new with brand new security chasms) IP stack that’s going to turn vista into nothing more than a pretty screensaver. Leo Laporte has some sobering words to say about it in episode 51 of “Security Now!” (http://www.twit.tv/sn51). Personally, I’ll stick with my MacBook!

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:24:44 +0000

@Long “Almost like Sokudo”.

Close. Try Sudoku!

By: Windows Vista Team Blog

Windows Vista Team Blog — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:07:42 +0000

See Windows Vista’s Speech Recognition In Action

You’ve do doubt heard about the Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting two weeks ago where a demonstration…

By: yom23

yom23 — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:01:04 +0000

System failure p.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:40:09 +0000

You may also notice the CPU usage spiking, and undoubtedly, it is because of the numbers.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:38:24 +0000

I say.. 666