Windows vista speech recognition
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Topic: Windows vista speech recognition
Posted By: MadDog
Subject: Windows vista speech recognition
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 3:48am
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Windows Vista speech recognition kicks butt!
I can post this without even touching my keyboard and surf the net!
Has anyone tried it yet?
My friend didn't like Vista so he gave me his serial number and said go for it. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 12:20pm
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I haevn't but i wanna give it a go. I'm gonna hook up a mic later on see how it goes.
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 2:10pm
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I have configured it and it's very accurate. It's a little annoying that it does not appear to learn which button I want it to click if multiple possibilties are there e.g. "Hit Enter" Highlights the Go Button and other stuff in IE. Besides that I like it quite a bit, just don't have too much use for it. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 4:04pm
Nice friend to have  |
MadDog wrote:Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 01 December 2006 at 10:57pm
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Hes a Mac dude that tried Vista and didnt like it lol ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 02 December 2006 at 2:09pm
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macs are sooo... last millenium.
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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 02 February 2007 at 10:53am
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Vista has speech recognition hole
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6320865.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6320865.stm
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 February 2007 at 11:48am
I'm just waiting for someone to release a top 10 hit called 'Format Hard Drive' with those words as the courses then all Vista users will be in trouble. 
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Posted By: MrMellie
Date Posted: 02 February 2007 at 1:28pm
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I'm sure we'll all be safe. Hopefully our English versions of Vista won't recognise the accent's of those trying to exploit the hole.
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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 4:07am
I wouldn't be surprised if it happens. Unpatched Vista copies have already gone on sale... I've also learned that Microsoft is working on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 already.  |
Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 4:13pm
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Microsoft have been working on service pack 1 for Vista since early last year, many businesses and academic institutes have already said they will wait till the SP1 release before switching
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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 4:46pm
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Since last year? Why the release then... without whatever is gonna be on SP1? what about the people that have already purchased their copies of Vista? They have to live with it till SP1 comes out, right? |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 03 February 2007 at 11:42pm
so basically its just a marketing oriented service pack released to motivate customers for upgrading rather than really fix security issues..its pathetic that a ISV has to work on SP even before releasing final product. It just highlight all the security holes MS will be packing in vista under the pretence of user friendliness which later becomes sources of all your viruses and annoyance. When will MS learn enough to get the OS right by the release time instead making dire attempts to prefect it in 3 years and 3 service packs later. ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss"> 
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Posted By: Phat
Date Posted: 04 February 2007 at 2:59am
We would never see the softwre if we waited for it to be perfect. How many times has WWF done an upgrade becase of a security hole? Not having a go at WWF but it is realisitc and everybody says WWF is one of the most secure forums around as well. I don't believe it is realistic for a software company to release 'perfect software' as a version 1 release. I think you would find it hard if not inpossible to find a S/W company that released perfect S/W as their initial release. ------------- http://buildit.sitesell.com/sitebuildithome.html - Get a website that sells |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 February 2007 at 2:04pm
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Fiji (Vista SP1) has been in development for quite some time, mainly to get the stuff to the customer that was not ready for launch. What's the big deal? Phat is absolutely right, we would be in the 24th if we wated for a perfect OS. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 February 2007 at 6:12pm
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I gave Vista a go at the weekend as Microsoft have sent me the Business Edition and I've got to say I hated it. It looks great for the home user, better looking, more emphasis on media, and simpler to use with all the advanced features well and truly hidden away. However for a development and working platform this sucked. You can't find anything and everything works slower because it has smooth animation to it all. The other problem I found is that on the machine I used for testing all the hardware was recognised and worked with Vista except the keyboard, and guess who makes the keyboard? Microsoft!! who are not going to make any Vista compatible drivers for it. I have found this every time MS have released a new operating system I have to scrap any Microsoft hardware to the bin as they seem to be the only company that don't make new drivers available for their own new OS. I for one will be avoiding Vista for as long as I possibly can. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: MrMellie
Date Posted: 05 February 2007 at 6:40pm
 When I buy more powerful hardware, it's to run things faster, not to cope with "pretty" things designers *think* we want.
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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 February 2007 at 6:52pm
I admit that in the beginning it takes a little getting used to. I am not using Vista for several month and grew accustom to it. I truly think it is superior to XP depending on your configuration. I am not doing much development on it but for .net stuff, IIS7 is just the bomb. So much easier to configure. So I guess, if you want to stick with what you know, either enable classic menus (you can do that and your vista looks almost like xp) or stick with XP which is a good OS, everyone (including you I think :) ) hated in the beginning.
As far as HW goes, you are right. MS is very bad in driver support. I have a MS Ergonomical blah blah 4000 or something. It did get upgraded drivers and for my Mouse (explorer) i do not really care as long as the back button works.
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 February 2007 at 7:25pm
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If anyone can find drivers for the Microsoft Office Keyboard RT9450 I will think about upgrading till then I can't live without this keyboard. I've not yet found a keyboard anywhere near this one to replace it with, it has cut, copy, and paste keys as well as a big scroll button which stops all that repetitive strain injury when scrolling through code all day. As a developer and suffering repetitive strain from scrolling I can't live without this keyboard I even have a stack of them in an office cupboard from eBay since MS stopped making it so I can replace my keyboard every time the old one wears out. Microsoft have released new Intelli Pro divers but they missed this keyboard out in them, which means I'm stuck with XP till either MS come out with a driver, I find a work around, or I finally find a keyboard which compares to this one (trust me I have been looking for years for a replacement and tried many along the way). ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 February 2007 at 7:32pm
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Did you try to just use the XP driver off the CD? That might work as it does for my scanner. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 05 February 2007 at 7:44pm
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I spent 2 hours searching the Internet, even trying to hack the XP driver to force it to install on Vista but with no luck. Seems like lots of people have the same issue with this keyboard and no-one has found a solution to it. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Melkor
Date Posted: 05 February 2007 at 7:57pm
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Hmmm, I bought 2 new laptops at the weekend, one for me and one for the wife, and none had the specs I needed without Vista being on them (I believe MS are in cahoots with the IRS as my tax return was delayed until after Vista came out). So far, I've used the VRS a whole once. It managed my English accent better than IBM Via Voice ever did and it spells better than me but I am not convinced that it is quicker than typing and I got fed up of trying to make it type "forum", it wanted to take me back to the default.asp instead. Other than that, I haven't had any problems with Vista but my I had to double the RAM on the wife's computer to get it to run forwards. Chess Titans is going to prevent me completing my contracts on time I think. |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 08 February 2007 at 8:34am
well thats why i always buy standard PS2 keyboards.. they are compatible even with a dumb rock.. plug them in any os and guaranteed to work..Genius the the brand feels right to me in the given price vs package. ------------- http://www.web2messenger.com/theboss">
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Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 08 February 2007 at 8:41am
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2 years from now..i can see speech recognition as a fav exploit just like RPC and IE was for XP
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