![]() ![]() Notice for example in the image below that while I've just been using voice recognition in vista for only 5 minutes, the system has scanned the documents in My Documents and my Desktop and determined that "Wii" (as in Nintendo Wii, a video game system that I recorded a podcast about yesterday) is a reasonable and valid homonym to "we."īut these are speech-specific things, what was really interesting to me is how easy it is to interact with the entire system, the shell, without touching your mouse. You can tell that BillG is very much not kidding when he says speech is going to be the way we will interact with their computers. But it's the interface, the user experience, that's so amazing. To be clear, they work, and they work well. While this entire blog post was dictated using the Built-in speech features in Vista, the dictation features, frankly aren't that impressive. You really have to try it to fully understand the improvements that have been made to accessibility in Windows Vista. ![]() I plugged in my Logitech USB headset and ran through the tutorial. Of course I was excited to hear that Windows Vista would include lots of new speech recognition features, and today I finally got to try them out. In fact, most of my chapters in the ASP.NET book were dictated with Dragon Naturally Speaking. In the past I've used Dragon Naturally Speaking as an alternative to typing. I doubt that it's carpal tunnel per se, but typing as fast as I do will no doubt eventually break the body down. In the past I've had a significant number of carpal tunnel like symptoms, and typing grows increasingly uncomfortable. ![]()
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