By I've been playing with Speech Recognition in Windows Vista today. And very nice it is too. It's very easy to get setup and works well with the normal Windows environment and programs such as Microsoft Office. Where it falls down is it's usability in other packages. It will recognise most of the normal menu commands in virtually any package and will happily minimize, maximize and close windows. It will even accept URLs in Firefox for example but you need to click in the address bar and then spell the URL out one character at a time. I tried to use it to enter text into a text box in Firefox without success. It also seemed to struggle with my pronunctiation of certain words. I had to eventually spell pain for it because it wrongly made about 7 or 8 differeent stabs at guessing what I was saying. For what it does it's very good; however, it still has a long way to go before it's going to replace the leyboard and mouse.
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