Discovered Windows Vista Speech Recognition

I remembered that I had Speech Recognition software when I installed Windows Vista few months ago. I decided to open it up. I installed my microphone and had the speech recognition software running. It took about 20 minutes to train the software to recognize my voice and dictate to my voice. I have to say that I was quite pleased with how the program was running. I am able to start and switch between programs with relative ease, and dictate very precisely. I have to say that, I haven't been able to dictate on Windows Word for some reason. The speech recognition software doesn't seem to work on Word at all. On the other hand, Windows Notepad and WordPad don't seem to have that much of a problem. My biggest complaint with the speech recognition software is browsing the Internet. It is next to impossible to browse the web with the software. For example, I wanted to browse bbcnews, it was close to impossible to make the software to recognize a particular link and to go to that page. I had to resort to "show numbers" feature to go a particular website every time. The "Show Number" features assigns a particular number to all click-able sections in the screen, thus allowing you to "manually" enter a particular section if the speech recognition software is failing. Also, the software doesn't work on Fire fox either (Microsoft's way of maintaining its usual monopoly). In regards to browsing Internet, I have found it to be extremely annoying that speech recognition software wouldn't allow me back to a particular website. If I wanted to go to indews.com for example, I had to add this particular name into speech dictionary, otherwise it would be impossible to get to the website by saying it in speech. Yes, I do understand the fact that there is no such word as "indews" but you should be able to nonetheless spell the name with relative ease. But that doesn't appear to be the case, and after trying to spell the name a hundred times in the address bar, I just gave up. For the record, I added my most visited websites in the speech dictionary, so I wouldn't have to struggle to get to the site I want.

Right now, I am experimenting with the software, and to tell you the truth, I think and type a lot faster than just speaking to the computer - I am quite surprised by this. Regardless, I do think that the speech recognition software is a very good choice for the future where we might very well forgo with typing completely. I definitely look forward to a day, when a computer can completely understand us, and types in almost everything we mean and discard all the garbage i.e. "umm.". Although I can think and type a lot faster than just speaking, I am pretty sure that things would change in the future. Overall, out of 10 I would give Windows Vista Speech Recognition Software a 6.5 rating. This isn't a review, but I have to say - I liked the program.

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