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Voice Recognition Demo for Vista goes bad
At Microsoft's financial analyst meeting last week in Redmond, a demo of Windows Vista's Voice Recongnition technology went bad - not picking up much of what the presenter was saying:In defense to Vista's Voice Recongnition technology, I've used it in Beta 2 and it worked absolutely wonderfully. I was not in a large conference room like the presenter above. Being in such a large room and getting echo could have played a large part in why Vista didn't pick up most of his words. But another thing to keep in mind, and as technical beta testers - you should know this well, with each new build sometimes comes with features that don't quite work.
This presenter may have been given a interim build from Microsoft to use that had some issues with the Voice technology that may have been fixed in another build later on. And the presenter was using a newer build of Office 2007 too for that matter. So in combination with echo, possibly a interim build of Vista, and a newer build of Office 2007 - its a dangerous combination to be demoing something important to a large group of investors and analysts.