Windows Vista Speech Recognition Saved a Person’s Job

I remember trying out speech recognition softwares back in College when I was doing a major project for my Artifical Intelligence class. That was around 9 years ago and all the software I tried was frustrating — lack in technical speech adaptability.

I am just reading this blog post from Dave Johnson who discuss how he had his hand placed in a cast and had to opt using Windows Vista Speech Recognition. The same as his experience, he had trouble with earlier speech recognition software; but was amazed upon trying out Vista speech recognition.

Overall, he was satisfied and it saved his job who required him for extensive hand jobs. :)

In an excerpt:

I found the accuracy of Vista’s Speech Recognition to be nothing short of startling.

It takes about twenty minutes to set up and train
the software, and then you can start dictating directly into your
favorite programs. I created documents in Microsoft Word, e-mails in Outlook, and random notes in OneNote. If the software made a mistake, it was easy to correct.

Read his post here.