Windows Vista Voice Recognition

oh my… this has happened so many times, I’m starting to think they do this on purpose for publicity? uh…???

Let’s so go double the killer delete, chris.

Dear diss,

We is on voice reconnaissance. The work not well.

WOW. That ranks up there with Bill Gates saying how stable Windows XP is and suddenly a blue screen came up. Microsoft would do better by being opensource, at least you would have real peer review you did your work!!

The real reason Bill is calling it quits. The stress from these live demos is probably killing him!

You’d think they’d learn already and tape the things.

Chris Pirillo

A demo like this reminds me of the old-timey newsreels of guys with wings strapped to their backs jumping off barns. I always wonder why they didn’t test the cam contraptions before inviting the newsreel cameras.

The grimmest of these was a fellow who jumped off the Eiffel Tower in 1912. He had something that he expected would work like the cape that Batman wears. Instead of a graceful and dramatic glide to a soft landing, he dropped straight down. Instead of measuring the distance of his flight (horizontally), they measured the depth of the crater he made. You can see the snuff film on YouTube here:

There’s a little background about it here:

Consolation for anyone whose demo crashes (as many of mine have)… you can still walk away.

Turns out, though, that in both cases you can wind up on YouTube.

BTW: As my friend Michael Witlin reminds me, Apple was successfully demonstrating speech recognition in echo-filled auditoriums back in Sculley days.

Windows Vista Voice Recognition ~ Chris Pirillo Blogged with Flock

Note to self: Live demos always poop the bed.

Microsoft presentation goes from bad to worse
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003164108_btdownload31.htm

This from a guy that has seen a few MS demos:
In a roomful of analysts and reporters, Boettcher tried to write a letter to his mother on Vista, using only his voice. The result was one of the worst Microsoft product demonstrations in recent memory.

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ViaVoice 98 on my Acer Aspire 2125, Socket 5,166Mhz Pentium MMX Overdrive, Windows 95 ver A PC, works better than that, what in the hell is Microsoft doing? By the way that old Windows 95 pc runs Firefox 1.5.0.5 with no problems on a 1.5 Mbps DSL connection.

takes a first look at the new version.) And then there was an apparent misfire of a demo of Vista’s voice recognition software at the recent analyst meeting in Redmond. (Chris Pirillo has linked to the YouTube video of that failure here. This recent talk has left me pondering a bit about voice recognition and the Tablet PC. First, I think it keeps getting closer, but I don’t think it is there yet. Second, I really think to use it effectively you not only have to train and

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Yeah vista’s voice recognition is… oh nevermind just watch the video (it is hilarious)

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Awesome vid. In yer face Bill! - almost better than the ALT CNTRL DELETE video where the inventor slams Mr. Gates. Good stuff.

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“Milan,” a multi-touch interface which is really starting to look like the evolution of the mouse and keyboard (Milan has a keyboard baked in) if Microsoft and Chris Pirillo ever get Windows Vista’s speech recognition figured out. :) There has been work on this technology since the 80’s but that’s not stopped Apple’s from filing an arsenal of patents on the multi-touch technology, and the first fruit from their multi-touch technology will come in the form of their iPhone,