Comments on: Deaf Leopard? - Is Vista Better Than Mac OS X at Speech Recognition? http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/ We're ALL Rich Rosen, but some of us are more Rich Rosen than others... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:25:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Rich Rosen http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/#comment-48 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:30:51 +0000 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/#comment-48 OK, so the Sync functionality is clearly getting a lot of play. Mossberg reviewed it in his column and had nice things to say about it. And the "Play Artist Michael Bolton" commercial is already beginning to grate on me. But <em>is this any more than recognizing simple voice commands?</em> I hardly think so. Windows' speech recognition has leaped ahead of the Mac's, only in the publicity department, not in the functionality department. Had Ford gone with a Mac as the basis for its cool speech recognition system, it might have been a lot more reliable than we know Windows to be. And perhaps it would have the good sense to crash the sound system whenever someone said "Play Artist Michael Bolton". :-) OK, so the Sync functionality is clearly getting a lot of play. Mossberg reviewed it in his column and had nice things to say about it. And the "Play Artist Michael Bolton" commercial is already beginning to grate on me. But is this any more than recognizing simple voice commands? I hardly think so. Windows' speech recognition has leaped ahead of the Mac's, only in the publicity department, not in the functionality department. Had Ford gone with a Mac as the basis for its cool speech recognition system, it might have been a lot more reliable than we know Windows to be. And perhaps it would have the good sense to crash the sound system whenever someone said "Play Artist Michael Bolton". :-)

]]> by: Rich Rosen http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/#comment-45 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:54:25 +0000 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/#comment-45 Another interesting point: the only solid example Caulfield gives in his article of a successful usage of Microsoft speech recognition technology is the <b>Sync</b> functionality found in Ford automobiles. And what can Sync do? Well, <em>all</em> it seems to be able to do is <em>recognize simple voice commands</em>. Hmmm... Another interesting point: the only solid example Caulfield gives in his article of a successful usage of Microsoft speech recognition technology is the Sync functionality found in Ford automobiles. And what can Sync do? Well, all it seems to be able to do is recognize simple voice commands. Hmmm...

]]> by: Rich Rosen http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/#comment-43 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:53:40 +0000 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/#comment-43 Funny, because "a solution in search of a problem" is precisely what was produced by my Vista voice recognition system when I said "asshole ocean surge Oprah blog hum" into the microphone. So voice recognition is bidirectional: you can say serious stuff into it and get garbage out, or (if you're careful... or lucky) vice versa. Funny, because "a solution in search of a problem" is precisely what was produced by my Vista voice recognition system when I said "asshole ocean surge Oprah blog hum" into the microphone. So voice recognition is bidirectional: you can say serious stuff into it and get garbage out, or (if you're careful... or lucky) vice versa.

]]> by: Misanthropic Scott http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/#comment-42 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:41:20 +0000 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/28/deaf-leopard-vista-speech-recognition/#comment-42 Ah voice recognition. IMHO, voice recognition, unless it gets truly perfected, is mostly a solution in search of a problem. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32478 Ah voice recognition. IMHO, voice recognition, unless it gets truly perfected, is mostly a solution in search of a problem.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32478

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