LOL MS Vista Voice 'Wreck'ognition!
Posted: 2006-07-29 03:16pm
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LOL MS Vista Voice 'Wreck'ognition!
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Posted: 2006-07-29 03:19pm
Amusing, well we've know for awhile that voice recongintion that does not take 5+ hours of training the computer is awhile off.
Posted: 2006-07-29 04:16pm
First, your assuming they hadn't already spent time trying to train it before the demo.Destructionator XIII wrote:Meh. While I got a chuckle out of it, I don't see it as a big deal. Voice recongition is certainly not an easy task. I remember one program I has (CD version of the Star Trek Encyclopedia in fact) that would try it, and what you had to do was sit there for hours, training it for every word you want it to know. You would have to repeat the word at least 5 times before it understood.
This thing looks better than that all ready, but it surely still needs work both from the coders and from the user before hand.
Second, what the hell was that bullshit excuse. Ambient noise fucked it up. So what does that mean, if the PC isn't in a sound proof hermetically sealed room it won't work?
Posted: 2006-07-29 07:49pm
This isn't anything but a gimmick by MS to add to Aero and give their OS some shine over the latest Mac or *NIX OS competing. If anyone expected it to be useable, think again. Dumb computers make really shitty conversationalists, and so we will always have this issue until the hardware and software gets smarter than a vegetable.
Posted: 2006-07-29 09:03pm
This is almost as good as the 98 demo.
Not quite, but almost.
Not quite, but almost.
Posted: 2006-07-29 09:33pm
What happened in the 98 demo?
Posted: 2006-07-29 09:46pm
It bluescreened
Posted: 2006-07-29 10:36pm
Pretty badly too.Pu-239 wrote:It bluescreened
Posted: 2006-07-30 12:12am
Wow. That's worse than the voice recognition software that IBM included with OS/2 Warp 4 ten years ago. I remember using VoiceType to dictate messages back in the day, and while when all was said and done it was easier to just type what you're trying to say, it still worked a hell of a lot better than that.
Posted: 2006-07-30 05:22am
As fun as this is, I doubt they would demo it in front of the press if the expected performance was anywhere near what was shown (and this should be much better then what was in OS/2, consumer computers have the processor power to do quality voice recognition only since after around a 1 Ghz Athlon IIRC).