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Pharaoh
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So last night I just taught myself everything about Speech Recognition
on my system. How cool is that! It's not perfect but almost. I know it
doesn't come in handy for everything but WOW. I love the small commands
I can utilize from it so I don't have to do anything else with the mouse
or keyboard.
So one example, I like to cut, paste, delete and copy lots of items on
a constant basis throughout windows. Well, good old design flaws have
lead us all to know that we cannot customize the toolbars in vista so
that we have a delete button up above or copy and paste, etc etc. Well
now I don't mind that at all. After I select a couple items, I can say
"copy" or "cut" or "delete" and it performs the action.
I love it. It's so cool. And since I use a laptop, the mic is built
right in and hears me clearly right in front of it. There are other
features of this I'm still perfecting but sometimes I'm just done
typing. So now I can just dictate into the computer to type a message.
The more you use it, the better at it learning your voice it becomes.
But I tested out 3 messages to friends and had no more than 4 mistakes
that I corrected. Plus, you can add words that it doesn't know and will
store them. Like names of people or places. So over time, you can see,
it will become easier and easier. Or say you're on the desktop. You can
just say "open calculator" or "open outlook" or "open notepad" instead
of navigating all the way into the start menu to click on it. And I
don't like to keep thousands of icons on my desktop to have quick
access. I like it to be clean.
Only a couple flaws to this are:
1) User Account Control. Anytime you open something and UAC kicks in,
speech rec. is off. You have to manually click ok to advance back into
normal windows. The
2) Adobe Flash. You can pretty much use speech rec. on any webpage. You
can do what they call "say what you see" but it doesn't recognize any
items inside Flash. You can say "show numbers" and it just highlights
all the options available to click, but with Flash it just recognizes
the whole thing as one option. GRR.
Just couldn't be cooler.
Hm... our move towards Windows 7 begins...
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Pharaoh
on my system. How cool is that! It's not perfect but almost. I know it
doesn't come in handy for everything but WOW. I love the small commands
I can utilize from it so I don't have to do anything else with the mouse
or keyboard.
So one example, I like to cut, paste, delete and copy lots of items on
a constant basis throughout windows. Well, good old design flaws have
lead us all to know that we cannot customize the toolbars in vista so
that we have a delete button up above or copy and paste, etc etc. Well
now I don't mind that at all. After I select a couple items, I can say
"copy" or "cut" or "delete" and it performs the action.
I love it. It's so cool. And since I use a laptop, the mic is built
right in and hears me clearly right in front of it. There are other
features of this I'm still perfecting but sometimes I'm just done
typing. So now I can just dictate into the computer to type a message.
The more you use it, the better at it learning your voice it becomes.
But I tested out 3 messages to friends and had no more than 4 mistakes
that I corrected. Plus, you can add words that it doesn't know and will
store them. Like names of people or places. So over time, you can see,
it will become easier and easier. Or say you're on the desktop. You can
just say "open calculator" or "open outlook" or "open notepad" instead
of navigating all the way into the start menu to click on it. And I
don't like to keep thousands of icons on my desktop to have quick
access. I like it to be clean.
Only a couple flaws to this are:
1) User Account Control. Anytime you open something and UAC kicks in,
speech rec. is off. You have to manually click ok to advance back into
normal windows. The
2) Adobe Flash. You can pretty much use speech rec. on any webpage. You
can do what they call "say what you see" but it doesn't recognize any
items inside Flash. You can say "show numbers" and it just highlights
all the options available to click, but with Flash it just recognizes
the whole thing as one option. GRR.
Just couldn't be cooler.
Hm... our move towards Windows 7 begins...
--
Pharaoh
