Comments on: Will Speech-Reco Cross the Chasm with Google? http://disruptionmatters.com/2008/11/15/will-speech-reco-cross-the-chasm-with-google/ The power of technology to change the World Tue, 13 Mar 2012 18:56:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Disruption Matters » Blog Archive » Top 5 Disruptions in the Past Twelve Months http://disruptionmatters.com/2008/11/15/will-speech-reco-cross-the-chasm-with-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1332 Disruption Matters » Blog Archive » Top 5 Disruptions in the Past Twelve Months Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:35:44 +0000 http://disruptionmatters.com/?p=322#comment-1332 [...] update and interactive recommendations/ads). Even speech recognition now runs in the cloud with Google Mobile App. The Winners: Google getting us to spend more time online, pioneer Amazon that gets economies of [...] [...] update and interactive recommendations/ads). Even speech recognition now runs in the cloud with Google Mobile App. The Winners: Google getting us to spend more time online, pioneer Amazon that gets economies of [...]

]]> By: Tomas http://disruptionmatters.com/2008/11/15/will-speech-reco-cross-the-chasm-with-google/comment-page-1/#comment-1324 Tomas Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:17:41 +0000 http://disruptionmatters.com/?p=322#comment-1324 Hi Chemi. I tried some years ago an IBM solution, and it wasn't bad, but I had to train it before reading some Quijote's passages. I'm not a big fan of Windows Vista, but as long as my wife has Vista in her computer and I recently read that it has speech-reco out-of-the-box, I decided to give it a try. I was quite surprised, because Vista speech-reco did work quite well. I could dictate in spanish a one page letter we had from my daughter's school with Wordpad with almost no mistakes without training. I even was able to correct those errors with some voice commands like "undo", "spell", etc... I also tried to control Windows with my voice, but some applications didn't behave correctly. I was able to maximize, close apps, etc... but not everything could be controlled by voice. Anyway, it was a really curious experience. If you have Vista and haven't used voice-reco, give it a try. It is under Programs | Accesories | Accessibility. Cheers, Tom Hi Chemi.
I tried some years ago an IBM solution, and it wasn’t bad, but I had to train it before reading some Quijote’s passages.

I’m not a big fan of Windows Vista, but as long as my wife has Vista in her computer and I recently read that it has speech-reco out-of-the-box, I decided to give it a try.

I was quite surprised, because Vista speech-reco did work quite well. I could dictate in spanish a one page letter we had from my daughter’s school with Wordpad with almost no mistakes without training.
I even was able to correct those errors with some voice commands like “undo”, “spell”, etc…

I also tried to control Windows with my voice, but some applications didn’t behave correctly. I was able to maximize, close apps, etc… but not everything could be controlled by voice.

Anyway, it was a really curious experience.
If you have Vista and haven’t used voice-reco, give it a try. It is under Programs | Accesories | Accessibility.

Cheers,
Tom

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