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"The Vista Show" podcast talks about Vista's Windows Speech Recognition

The Vista Show is a podcast that broadcasts a weekly show in podcast format each week from thevistashow.com . This week Jack discusses Vista's Windows Speech Recognition. You can jump ahead to the 18 minute mark in the MP3 file . Jack says Windows Speech Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2007 8:27 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Extreme Tech reviews Windows Speech Recognition

Another good reivew of Windows Speech Recognition in Windows Vista: "If you have Windows Vista, even the Home Basic version, you already have one of the more powerful speech recognition systems available. Microsoft has invested many millions of dollars Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 12, 2007 8:26 AM by robch | 1 Comments

Telling your computer what to do -- Another post by David Pogue of the NYT

Well ... I must say that I didn't expect David Pogue to love Windows Speech Recognition as much as he does. I remember going out to meet him last August while I was in New York for SpeechTEK 2006. I was a bit nervous, as David is one of the top technology Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:24 AM by robch | 0 Comments

CrunchGear compared Apple's OS X Speech Recognition to Windows Speech Recognition in Vista

CrunchGear posted a comparison of Apple's OS X and Windows Vista yesterday, going over feature by feature discussing similarities and differences. For each feature CrunchGear declared a winner. It was neat to see that one of the areas they compared OS Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:21 AM by robch | 1 Comments

David Pogue says (on NPR) his favorite feature in Vista is Windows Speech Recognition

I know David Pogue really likes Windows Speech Recognition, but today he actually called it out as his favorite feature in Windows Vista this morning on NPR. Here's exactly what he had to say : Interviewer: "So, what's your favorite feature?" David Pogue: Read More...
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 9:06 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Chicago Sun-Times says: Windows Speech Recognition is one of "Vista's true superstar features"

Today, Andy Ihnatko published an article on Vista called " Vista brightens Windows " in the Chicago Sun-Times . In it, he goes over a lot of the features in Vista, and why they all combined make a compelling upgrade for users. He says: "one of Vista's Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:36 PM by robch | 1 Comments

Paul Thurrott's SuperSite Windows Vista Review of Windows Speech Recognition

As I'm sure most of you probably already know, Paul Thurrott runs a really cool website, called Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows . It's a great place to go for information on Windows. He's been working on a review of Windows Vista for quite some Read More...
Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 11:00 AM by robch | 0 Comments

WSR's in David Pogue's Top 10 list

David Pogue published his annual Top 10 list again this year in the NY Times . In it, Microsoft got 2 of the 10 nods. The first nod was for the wireless song transfer features of the Zune (something the whole music industry has pointed out was an innovative, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:36 AM by robch | 1 Comments

David Pogue says Windows Speech Recognition is "beautifully designed"

David Pogue had something nice to say about Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) in this morning’s NY Times… "And besides, not all of the new goodies fell from the Apple tree. [] Windows Speech Recognition isn’t as accurate as, say, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:27 AM by robch | 1 Comments

Jupiter Research says, Windows Speech Recognition "is so darn good, it feels a little bit out of science fiction."

I found this post last week from Todd Bishop , local Seattle PI writer and blogger that tracks all things Microsoft . He linked to Michael Gartenberg 's blog entry on Windows Speech Recognition (WSR). There, Michael says: I’ve been using the integrated Read More...
Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 9:14 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Windows Speech Recognition Screencast -- In French!

There have been quite a few screen casts of Windows Speech Recognition making there way around the Internet... But almost all of them have been in English. Here's one showing just how well WSR is in French. Check it out here . Read More...
Posted Monday, December 11, 2006 9:02 AM by robch | 0 Comments

CBS News: Voice Recognition Put To Test

Larry Magid did an article on speech recognition last weekend on CBS News. In the article he talked about his experience with both Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) version 9, as well as Windows Speech Recognition (WSR) included in the upcoming Windows Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 8:20 AM by robch | 1 Comments

Windows Vista: Eye Candy or Functionality

In an interesting blog posting on Windows Vista discussing the answer to the question, is Windows Vista just eye candy, or is a world class OS that everyone wants and needs, the author has this to say about Speech: ... it’s very easy to learn, and works Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 8:00 AM by robch | 0 Comments

Geekzone 2006

A blogger (Tim Haines) from New Zealand recently wrote about a demo he saw of Windows Speech Recognition given by Microsoft's very own Nathan Mercer at Geekzone 2006 . Here's what he had to say about Nathan's demo: The way you can drive Vista by voice Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 1:00 PM by robch | 0 Comments

Larry Magid: Vista's voice feature not bad

Larry Magid wrote an article that I just read on Mercury News on Vista's new Windows Speech Recognition. Apparently, Larry recently broke his elbow and he's become one of the many who have a "temporary" disability. His elbow will get better (hopefully), Read More...
Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 1:57 PM by robch | 2 Comments
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