Vista speech recognition demo failure

Post #263,166 by Another Scott 7/31/06 11:34:06 AM Reply	Vista speech recognition demo failure [link\|http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33351\|This] was mentioned on Mini-Microsoft and other places. It seems that MS is still trying to catch up with [link\|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2\|OS/2 Warp 4] from 1996. A direct link to a video TV report on the demo is [link\|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ\|here] (on YouTube). Cheers, Scott.
Post #263,168 by bepatient 7/31/06 11:38:46 AM Reply	Remember a blurb from the senate hearings where Bill G said that Windows could be knocked off in very short order by a speech enabled operating system. The statement, at the time, made me sick. But was telling into the direction MS took with buying the tech...you knew at some point it was going to be a "feature" of Windows. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #263,174 by altmann 7/31/06 12:03:33 PM Reply	Bug Fixed As I posted yesterday, I got a chance to check out the machine that Shanen used for the Financial Analysts Meeting demo. I confirmed that it was just what I suspected: An audio gain issue. If you watch the video clip on MSN Video you can see in the speech user interface that the microphone "volume" is very high. It pushes up into the red frequently while Shanen is speaking to the computer. That's caused by the fact that the audio sub-system wasn't respecting the audio gain settings we've asked it to use. This is a known bug in current builds, and has already been fixed by the audio team in their private builds in preparation for RTM. ... The problem in this demo was simply a matter of the audio sub-system not respecting that audio gain "request" that WSR made. So effectively, all the audio data that was being received by WSR was being clipped, and thus was incredibly distorted. [link\|http://blogs.msdn.com/robch/archive/2006/07/29/682479.aspx\|http://blogs.msdn.co...07/29/682479.aspx] -- Chris Altmann
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Post #263,236 by jb4 7/31/06 6:19:05 PM 7/31/06 6:19:38 PM Reply	Can you say, "Dragon Naturally Speaking"? I knew you could (and I knew that Dragon Naturally Speaking, V9, would recognize it properly first try!) So Dragon is the new Borland?!? jb4 "So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it. I haven't." — Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondent's Dinner 29Apr06 Edited by jb4 July 31, 2006, 06:19:38 PM EDT Expand All History

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