Microsoft demos Vista speech
Found on The Inquirer on Saturday, 29 July 2006
Quite what's left of the promised features in Vista, is hard to list. But speech recognition is one of the components that's expected to launch with the product in January. Probably.
Unfortunately not all has gone well with recent press preview's of the new recognition technology, with Vista being unable to cope with the majority of the speech and commands by a Microsoft PR man. Check out this video for another laugh at the expense of Microsoft.
Microsoft was allegedly unhappy with the video's airing, citing background ambient noise, which the reporter's expensive sensitive camera mics didn't seem to pick up.
Reminds me of the "bluescreen of death presentation" video and the "640KB ought to be enough for anyone" line. After trying to make it recognise "dear mom" and a comma, followed by some tries to correct recognition mistakes, the screen presented the following text: "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all".