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| Time: 09:24 EST/14:24 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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In the not-too-distant future, children will look at keyboards and mice with a mixture of amusement and derision. Advances in speech-recognition and dictation technology have quietly made stunning leaps forward in recent years; and although it isn't perfect yet, speech recognition has suddenly achieved very good usability. Here's how to take advantage of Windows 7's built-in voice command tools and make a break from the keyboard and mouse. | ||
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| #1 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 11/4/2010 9:08:29 PM |
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What make voice command and interaction impracticable is the surrounding issue: we, the humans, can discerne, analayze, process and react to to different kind of vocal and even visual inputs at the same time, computer, at least now and I guess for a foreseeable future, do not.
Unless you are alone in a quite room voice recognition would not work. This not to mention how you could disturb others around you too. :-) This post was edited by Fritzly on Thursday, November 04, 2010 at 21:09. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 11/5/2010 9:42:46 AM |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0kDcUEDfmY
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| #3 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at 11/5/2010 3:10:20 PM |
| I toyed with it on Vista. Free recognition was as anybody would guess... ok if the room was insanely quite and you were very clear. As far as controlling the OS and software. Using the Speech API you can make it quite useful... but again, it still has to be relatively quite. |
| #4 By 8556 (173.27.244.6) at 11/5/2010 5:19:16 PM |
| Fritzly has a valid point. Without a headset, voice is not practice. Built in mics will pick up too much ambient noise or the clown at the desk near yours that yells out "log off" and shuts everyone down. Ain't gonna work in most settings. |
| #5 By 13997 (96.38.171.8) at 11/7/2010 9:38:22 PM |
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It has less to do with the environment, than the microphone technology and the software handling the audio input. If you look at Kinect, it does a much better job of doing voice, across the room, and doesn't get distracted by sounds coming from alternative locations or even the television itself. Look for Microsoft to push for better microphone technology devices, probably even Kinect like technology with Microphone arrays. A single Microphone doesn't even have the ear canal to bounce sound through for audio location, like a person's ear works, even this added with a bit more sound processing and there is no reason that the existing Voice recognition technology in Win7 wouldn't be seen as more Star Trek like. The other point is, "when is voice interaction appropriate?" And there are times, like in a car that it is essential (again, the MS Sync/Car technologies do well); however, there are times that you don't want to be saying outloud everything you do with your computer. This requires more advances in UI and Voice Only UI thinking that is just at the begining stages now that the software and hardware can understand what we are saying. |
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