Voice Recognition
 

(no I am not speaking this, yet)

I realized recently that Windows Vista has a built-in speech recognition utility. Anyone try it? What do you think about it?

I just started playing with it but I think there is a long learning curve, both for the computer to recognize my voice and me to remember the allowable commands.

We use Dragon Naturally Speaking. works well

You're first issue is still being on Vista, I thought better of you.:jump1:

In all honesty, I've been using Vista for well over a year now and had no clue there was voice recognition.

I'm debating paying the $119 to upgrade to Win7 but as of yet can't justify. My daughter just got a new 'puter loaded with Win7 so I'll see what it looks like at least. I hate upgrading OS without a hard disk format.........and I'm not willing to do that yet!

i'm waiting for the "how are you feeling AI question"

I tried Dragon V2! Hated it but it was mostly a limitation of the hardware available at the time, a 386 processor and 64K of RAM.:biglaugh:

I know numerous drs. etc that use it to do their work. I only wish I could also set up their pc's

Dragon used to bog down the computer. I haven't tried it in recent history , say 10 years. It worked good even back then but you needed lots of memory and it still made all the other applications come to a crawl.

Damned good concept though , you talk--it types. They'll get it staright someday where its totally accurate and just another program running in the background.

its pretty good in 7, there is a long tutorial that you have to go through ( a few times) to get how it works. I do feel silly talking to my computer though :)