[phoenix0468]

Tww Words, MICROSOFT SUCKS!!!

[Revel]

ROTFLOL

[Echo Talon]

AHHH MSN!!!! NO love for Linux users :D

[Echo Talon]

pretty funny, but Vista will have at least 40% of the market by 2008. compared to Apples OS X at about 5-6%

[Echo Talon]

I think its funny that we are laughing at Beta software, its not even a "release candidate" yet, this is Windows Vista Beta and MS Office 2007 Beta correct?

[coconutt2000]

Technically, ambient noise does have that effect on speech recognition software. Air conditioner noise, breathing, even background talking can affect recognition.

It is pretty much why speech recognition hasn't gone anywhere commercially. Office ambient noise screws it up. Directional microphones help, butt don't eliminate ambient noise.

I have doubts that the technology will go very far, at least until mathematicians start modeling "context analysis" into the software. Speech recognition in humans is very contextual. We hear what we expect to hear based on context. We project what we expect to hear next, and listen for it. Until the software can start making the necessary linkages to context, common phrases, etc - it will remain temperamental. Oddly enough, we read the same way.

[Echo Talon]

Vista Build 5472 preview, Anandtech July 28th, 2006

[steve-b]

The station that ran the clip, OTM, was told that Microsoft was not happy with it airing the video

Ya think?