WinHEC and Speech Recognition

This is WinHEC week in Seattle, and here's what BillG had to say in his keynote speech:

We're taking advantage of the incredible chip improvements that Intel and AMD and others bring up that allows us to be more ambitious in terms of what software can do on the device, things like ink recognition, and speech recognition, visual recognition are now within reach because of that incredible performance.

Other things to notice:

• Expect everything (including mobile) to be 64-bit and multicore by 2009.
• A cool new demo app called the New York Times Reader, shows off some of the power behind Vista.
• New peer-to-peer wireless collaboration in Vista lets two people share files across their wireless cards.
• Windows messenger has 800M minutes of voice each month. (I wonder how many of those would be interested in SR?)