Windows Vista speech recognition - the whole story

Video Title :	Windows Vista speech recognition - the whole story
Description :	While I don't particularly like Microsoft, and found the Vista speech recognition gone wrong clip a good joke, several Microsoft blogger pointed out the that it was a case of selective media editing. I was interested in getting the whole story so I downloaded the 70mb MSFT Financial Analyst Meeting 2006: Steve Ballmer clip from here http://www.microsoft.com/msft/speech/FY06/BallmerFAM2006.mspx Knowing there were probably others who wanted to see it but didn't wish to retrive the whole file, I cut it to show the entire speech recognition part. If you haven't yet seen the CNBC selectively edited clip, I suggest you watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ Having seen this, while I still find the original clip funny, it's clear the bigger joke is on CNBC for their selective, misleading editing and (rather silly as well) commentary... The issues and reasons for the failure are discussed here http://blogs.msdn.com/sprague/archive/2006/07/27/680749.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/robch/archive/2006/07/28/681467.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2006/07/31/684327.aspx http://blogs.3sharp.com/Blog/dougv/archive/2006/08/01/1672.aspx I'm not 100% sure on the copyright status, I hope that since Microsoft makes the entire clip available on their website and the CNBC selectively edited/misleading clip is available, they won't mind. If they do, tell me and I will remove it ASAP. N.B. As I hope I made clear above. I am NOT associated in any way shape or form with Microsoft, so please don't accuse me of being so
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Keywords, Tags :	microsoft ms vista speech recognition demo oops wrong whole story entire clip selective misleading media CNBC editing
Video Length :	2 : 39

Comments :

Thanks for this video, I'm a total Linux fan, server and desktop but its nice to see the true story rather then media nonsense, even if was fun to point and laugh :)

"Control Alt Delete"

It comes with the OS at no extra charge. This would be great, for example, to setup for a media center PC where you don't have a keyboard, or don't want to get up to get your keyboard. Knock it if you want, but speech recognition is a profitable industry, and Microsoft's offering is competitive. I'm not sure what your point is beyond not personally needing speech recognition.

this is just stupid, it seems faster and easier to just use the keyboard.

it is still in very early production don't expect too much.

even so, its not that hard to just use a keyboard and mouse. People need to stop being so lazy

Aaand, if you can't type due to a disability and can't hire a secretary 24/7 ... you call your kids / parents / family over whenever you want to do something?

i agree

avrage typign speed 40 words a minutier average speaking speed 120 words a minuite writing a essay or something like that the time can be reduced and if u have a laptop leave it on a table in front of you and don't mess your back up leaning over your pc the whole time sounds good to me!

But what if you spill a milkshake over it ;_;