windows vista voice recognition

[greatfool66]

I want to set up my vista voice recognition to hear me from across the room. Basically I want to yell at my computer like in star trek "computer - play beethoven."

Anyone know if I just need a good omnidirectional mic, or are there any devices that are specifically designed to work with this kind of application? I guess I need something that can understand me from 15 feet or so indoors but not get too distorted when I'm closer. Thanks.

 

[HermDogg]

I highly doubt that there's much of a market for the "wanting to yell at the computer from across the room" segment. However, a few thoughts. First of all I don't think omni directional mike is what you're looking for, especially if you're going to have the gain so far up. A directional mike would probably be better with the drawback being that you have limited area of usage laterally. Also, you're going to have to train it with you yelling, so it may not work perfectly when you're near to it. I'm not sure if Vista's voice recognition allows for the training for two different voices, but I would look into it if I were you in order to be able to use yelling and inside voices.