Anyone use the Vista speech recognition tool yet?

[blurredvision]

I hooked up the mic tonight, and played around a bit with the built-in speech recognition tool in Vista. I believe it's in all versions, but somebody correct me if I'm wrong on that. However, it did a fantastic job at picking up my voice and translating it correctly.

There's a lengthy tutorial that shows you how to work it and what commands to say, at the same time training your computer to your voice. The only words/phrases that I had any trouble with was saying "OK" and "1". Two of the simplest things, but I'd usually have to say them atleast twice. Everything else worked great.

You can basically navigate the entire computer just using your speech. This includes browsing the internet, clicking on links, opening folders, and then opening files within those folders. I did not test speech dictation in Word yet, but I can imagine it performs like a champ.

Just thought I'd come in here and give it a :thumbsup:.

 

[SilentRunning]

When I have used voice recognition in the past I always had to be careful to say

"thee" instead of "thah" for the word "the"

 

[SynthDude2001]

I've played with it some, it's really pretty good overall. I haven't done a whole lot of actual dictation yet, but accuracy seems better than anything I've used in the past (then again, I haven't exactly been a regular user of the technology either). The funny thing is, I had problems with the system recognizing "OK" as well...

 

[stash]

I used it a few times pre-RTM with just the crappy mic built into my laptop (in a quiet room, obviously), and it was kinda spooky how good it was. I was pretty skeptical going into it.

Haven't used it in RTM, and I don't see myself using it regularly, but still pretty damn cool.

 

[cockeyed]

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'd like to try it, but need a microphone, preferably a desktop model with on/off switch. From what I've been reading, the mic quality is critical for accuracy. Were you using a headset or desktop microphone?

edit: I picked up a Logitech 980186-0403 desktop mic and it seems to work ok so far. Easy PnP install in a USB port. Works well with Vista so far.