Why Vista won't suck
ExtremeTech has this review of reasons to be excited about Vista:
How about some built-in speech recognition? That's right, Vista will include a built-in speech recognition engine, and new and improved speech synthesis. Assuming it works as well as it should, you'll be able to dictate emails or give voice commands for web navigations without buying additional speech recognition software.
And now that I'm using it every day, I can tell you that yes it does work as well as it should.