Vista Speech Recognition - Better Than The Rest?

Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 7:00 pm. 0 comments

Well, not really no. Vista’s built in speech recognition is better than some I’ve used such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, mainly thanks to the fact that it is built into Windows & doesn’t seem to hog resources. It also has a scarily accurate command system which is actually very, very accurate. Dictation though is about as much use as a ‘fizzy fart’.

Earlier today I set up speech recognition in Vista and ran the set-up, then I used the training tool 3 times to train it up a bit. I then read a full section from a Wikipedia article on Cheese. Why cheese? I don’t know.

Here we go, correct parts are marked green. By correct I mean exact spelling and the right type of word such as plural, etc.

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Hundreds of types of cheeses are produced. The different styles, textures and flavours and origin of the mill (include animals die). Whether it has been pasteurised, on the fat content, speaking union Maude, Mrs. Who have entered into. Boots, spaces, all woods or may be used as leverage agents. Real red, many Jesus is a result of a animals. Cheeses are you or I may order a copy various dishes or are forced to user’s mail when

For a few cheeses, the male is to I-such as the ego or lemon. Most users are notified to a lesser degree by bacteria, with which to build Chavez into a big asset, then the edition of rapid compete with them. It terrier nonsense to radical review all corner. Produced by fermentation of the for does, all of us have been extracted from various pieces of the site on the.

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Yes, that’s right. It got all of the other stuff that isn’t green wrong. Some of the wrong words are just the wrong type such as non-plural, but most are completely the wrong word. You can view the original Wiki page here to compare.

So there you go a quick insight into the new speech recognition that Vista brings to the table. This post wasn’t really meant to make fun of speech recognition technology but just to point out that we are possibly quite a long, long way away from using it in every day life, for dictation anyway.

Oh and another quick thing, You can’t use dictation in any programs other than Word, Open Office, notepad & wordpad. Trying to write stuff in fields in Firefox is about a easy as finding Waldo… Damn! Bad analogy, you get what I mean though.

So anyway that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed laughing at Vista’s version of Wikipeida’s cheese page. More tutorials and stuff soon. Also let me know what you think of Vista’s speech recognition and if you use it or not.