If you want real fun, turn on the speech recognition and
then put another computer next to it and turn on Narrator...
Dave
"Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message
news:261120091850461770%...
> In article <>, Stan Starinski
> <China@stealsUSJobsPatentsSoftwareMusicVideo> wrote:
>
>> What is Vista Speech?
>
> It is a speech recognition app built into the Vista OS.
> (also built into System-7 OS)
>
> Formally called WSR, Windows Speech Recognition
>
> Lots of fun to play with, once you get over the
> initial shock of starting to learn it.
>
> Hang on a minute, lemme see how to fire it up,
> I have not used it for a while...
>
> With Vista, I clicked on the "Start" menu, then I
> clicked on "Control Panel"
> (the so-called "classic" view of Control Panel)
>
> There are a bunch of icons, find the "Speech Recognition"
> icon and double-click it.
>
> Window opens with a bunch of choices, I clicked on the
> first choice "Start Speech Recognition"
>
> Good Grief! - all that happened was a tiny rectangular
> thingy came up at the top of my screen, about half an inch
> by 3 inches, with the word "sleeping" in it.
>
> Okay, gimme a second to figure this out, as I am 80 and
> senile - - - alrighty, I closed the main Control Panel
> window, leaving only the tiny wide rectangular thingy
> at the top of my screen, with the word "sleeping" in it.
>
> I right-clicked on the rectangular thing, a menu popped up.
>
> One of the choices on the pop-up menu was for me to
> say "Start Listening".
>
> Hmm, fished around for my headset microphone, put it
> on my head.
>
>
> Whoops, I forgot to mention that you have to have a
> headset microphone, the kind that plugs into your
> USB connector on your PC, _that_ does not come free.
>
> Anyhow, I bravely spoke "Start Listening".
>
>
> Viola !!! - - - the word "Sleeping" disappeared from
> the small rectangular thingy, replaced by the
> word "Listening".
>
> I are now an expert, I played with "Start Listening"
> and "Stop Listening" several times.
>
>
> Making sure WSR was listening to me, I said "Open Note Pad"
>
> Sure enough Vista Speech obediently opened Note Pad.
>
> Oh the power, do not know if I can handle all this.
>
> I spoke the name "George Stephanopoulos" and sure enough
> the text George Stephanopoulos appeared in the Note Pad
> window, correctly spelled.
>
> Now I have created a monster, as I do not know how to quit
> NotePad by voice.
>
> Where is "andy t" when I need him!
>
> I quit NotePad by keyboard.
>
> Then I right-clicked on the rectangular thingy.
>
> One of the choices was "Exit" so I clicked on that,
> shutting down Vista Speech.
>
>
> Anyhow, if you can get hold of a cheap $50 USB headset,
> once you start playing with this it can become addictive.
>
> Vista Speech has a very fine built-in tutorial, wish my
> $1,600 Dragon speech app had a similar tutorial.
>
> Most of the stuff you need to know can be accessed by
> right-clicking on that rectangular thingy.
>
> Mark-
|
Similar Threads
Linear Mode
