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By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Computer, Let Me Tell You Something…Voice Recognition Grows Up «

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:51:28 +0000

[...] Computer, Let Me Tell You Something…Voice Recognition Grows Up From a July 2006 Reuters article describing an early Vista demo: [...]

By: YoungGoGetter » Bill Gates’ image shoots itself in the foot

YoungGoGetter » Bill Gates’ image shoots itself in the foot — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:20:53 +0000

[...] Bill Gates’ image shoots itself in the foot July 12th, 2006 First David Letterman takes a shot at Bill Gates, then Microsoft takes a shot at themselves. [...]

By: GottaBeMobile.com - Vista Speech Recognition Ups The Volume - Your Tablet PC and Ultra-Mobile PC news source

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:21:37 +0000

[...] Anyway, there are indeed improvements in Voice recognition in Windows Vista, and no it is not perfect yet. I’ll be interested to see if this increases others’ usage of voice recognition. After a particularly bad faux pas at a demonstration, a lot of folks where laughing at Microsoft’s efforts, but I’ve given the new voice-recognition in Vista a few work outs and I’ll say it is much improved. You still need a good quality microphone for the best results. For another look at Vista’s voice recognition take a look at this article by Reuben Schwartz. Also here’s a re-link to a screencast by Long Zheng that shows off some of the voice recognition features. Software | Vista 11/03/2006 05:21:30 (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00) Vista Speech Recognition Ups The Volume Comments [0] | | Digg This | del.icio.us | Citations [...]

By: Mexico501 » Blog Archive » When good demos go (very, very) bad

Mexico501 » Blog Archive » When good demos go (very, very) bad — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:17:33 +0000

[...] Page Summary: Copyright Reuters. Rest in peace Microsoft, I thing you are well beyond the point of no return. We are asking you to do this to help prevent comment spam. We moderate all comments and will publish everything that advances the post directly or with relevant tangential information.read more | digg story [...]

By: Tech Industry » When good demos go (very, very) bad

Tech Industry » When good demos go (very, very) bad — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:59:54 +0000

[...] At Micrsoft â??s annual Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday, Vista product manager Shanen Boettcher set out to show just how easy to use the speech recognition technology built into upcoming Windows Vista software will be. But something went very wrong…read more | digg story [...]

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Lets set so double the killer delete select all. « ` — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:09:52 +0000

[...] It’s how history repeats itself Posted by backtick Filed in Binary Notes [...]

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:28:39 +0000

I was at this meeting and wrote up an account of what happened that counters the newscast here.

By: theory.isthereason » Today’s Links: Lets set so double the killer delete select all

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:12:19 +0000

[...] Video: Vista’s "double the killer delete select all" Vista’s Voice Recognition gone really bad in a live demo in front of investors. Reuter’s report here. I sense a meme coming… Remember: "double the killer delete select all!" Keywords: funny, video, windows [...]

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:13:37 +0000

“Wait a second. Someone in the computer industry just took personal responsibility for messing up?”

No, noone took personal responsibility, this developer was setup. The responsibility lies with the presenter, who did not prepare for his presentation.

Most often speech recognition software requires the user to train it for a few minutes, before it can be used successfully. Obviously this sales/marketting moron did not do anything like that before the demo, otherwise if the problem was actually in software he would’ve known it.

As usual noone who matter is taking personal responsibility.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:39:04 +0000

here’s my problems with Mac. they control all the hardware. I have a dell laptop, my newborn son threw up into it as I was having a video call with my mom.(Yes it was stupid of me to lean my son over my computer). I have goldcare on my laptop. Dell fixed and replaced everything. I talked to an apple sales rep a few days later about corporate purchases. He said, that if that had happened to an apple I was would SOL. I don’t doubt Mac is a more stable OS, they don’t have to account for a million varieties of hardware that the OS will run on. have you ever had service on your iPod? It’s dealing with Apple’s service that makes me not a fan of apple.