Comments on: Video: Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested – Perl Scripting http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/ [Technology, Reviews, Programming, Gaming, Movies, TV, Videos, Links, etc] Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:44:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Niklaus http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/comment-page-1/#comment-17106 Niklaus Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:37:55 +0000 http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/#comment-17106 This kind-of reminds me of the early Microsoft pen services for windows. Most people would get so frustrated trying to train the beast that they would opt for the little on-screen keyboard. I had an Itronix with a touch-screen and soon realized that the moer frustrated you got, the more difficult it was to write in a way that the limited recognition software could handle. The speech recognition appears to have the same problem. My guess is that the speech recognition simply filters the recorded speech through a fft algorithm and then tries to identify a sequence of phoneme patterns in the result that it uses as an index into a dictionary. Most of the serious speech recognition systems require training, a short procedure involving reading a list of words as they are displayed on the screen. The real problem here is that speech recognition has been under development for over 30 years and there have been products that worked quite well. If you had seen any of those applications in use, you wouldn't call anything about this "impressive". This kind-of reminds me of the early Microsoft pen services for windows. Most people would get so frustrated trying to train the beast that they would opt for the little on-screen keyboard. I had an Itronix with a touch-screen and soon realized that the moer frustrated you got, the more difficult it was to write in a way that the limited recognition software could handle.

The speech recognition appears to have the same problem. My guess is that the speech recognition simply filters the recorded speech through a fft algorithm and then tries to identify a sequence of phoneme patterns in the result that it uses as an index into a dictionary.

Most of the serious speech recognition systems require training, a short procedure involving reading a list of words as they are displayed on the screen.

The real problem here is that speech recognition has been under development for over 30 years and there have been products that worked quite well. If you had seen any of those applications in use, you wouldn’t call anything about this “impressive”.

]]> By: gvb http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/comment-page-1/#comment-16644 gvb Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:40:48 +0000 http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/#comment-16644 Really, the voice recognition isn't that bad. He always says 'slektal' and the computer usually knows that he means 'select all,' which is pretty impressive. Really, the voice recognition isn’t that bad. He always says ’slektal’ and the computer usually knows that he means ’select all,’ which is pretty impressive.

]]> By: neveryoumind http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/comment-page-1/#comment-15688 neveryoumind Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:03:17 +0000 http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/#comment-15688 Fair enough as a piece of comedy but as a means of dissing vista speech recognition ? if you actually wanted to code why not use your hands...?or were you too busy rumbbing them together with glee at how smart your gonna look Fair enough as a piece of comedy but as a means of dissing vista speech recognition ? if you actually wanted to code why not use your hands…?or were you too busy rumbbing them together with glee at how smart your gonna look

]]> By: VistaHater http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/comment-page-1/#comment-15664 VistaHater Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:19:57 +0000 http://ibloggedthis.com/2007/02/14/video-microsoft-vista-speech-recognition-tested-perl-scripting/#comment-15664 The person dictating is STUPID. The person dictating is STUPID.

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