Re: Why is the TRUTH about general Vista SR so difficult to obtain?

I don't think it's ignorance. I think it just makes too many basic mistakes
to be taken seriously.

But we can all have our pet obsessions. Yours happens to be SR. No shame in
that.

I pay my electricity bill via voice recognition and the (electronic) 'lady'
on the end of the phone has never once made a single mistake; even when I've
mumbled or had a cold, so it must be good. I sometimes suspect that there's
a real woman monitoring the robot just to make sure she never goes astray
(or that could be just a fantasy). Anyhow, I'll ask her next time, if I get
the chance, which operating system she runs on (the robot that is).

Mind you we've never yet got on to topics like post-alveolar velar
fricatives, Shakespeare's Henry V, nor Franz Kafka's parable 'The Trial',
but we're getting there. All relationships take time to build.

--
Jon

Don't anthropomorphosize computers..... they don't like it.


"Mark Conrad" <> wrote in message
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>
> Why, why, why, is Speech Recognition so difficult
> to get the "correct" skinny on, here and now.
>
> Is it because in general that people are generally so
> ignorant of the general subject of SR, as it pertains
> to Vista?
>
> We Generals want to know.
>
> Is SR worth a flying **** generally; if not, why.
>
> Will it EVER be worth a flyng **** ? If so when?
>
> These guys seem to think SR will be the cat's meow
> in about 20 years, if you look near the end of
> their article:
>
> http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/a...ml?printable=1
>
>
> SR might even be better than non-skid toilet paper, by then.
>
>
> I wanna talk to my computer, futhermore I want it to
> talk back to me in an intelligent manner, kinda like
> the computer HAL did in the old movie:
>
> "2001: A Space Odyssey"
>
>
> Is that too much to ask, in this technological age?
>
> The General (Mark Conrad)

"Jon" <> wrote in message
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>I don't think it's ignorance. I think it just makes too many basic
>mistakes to be taken seriously.
>
> But we can all have our pet obsessions. Yours happens to be SR. No shame
> in that.
>
> I pay my electricity bill via voice recognition and the (electronic)
> 'lady' on the end of the phone has never once made a single mistake; even
> when I've mumbled or had a cold, so it must be good. I sometimes suspect
> that there's a real woman monitoring the robot just to make sure she never
> goes astray (or that could be just a fantasy). Anyhow, I'll ask her next
> time, if I get the chance, which operating system she runs on (the robot
> that is).
>
> Mind you we've never yet got on to topics like post-alveolar velar
> fricatives, Shakespeare's Henry V, nor Franz Kafka's parable 'The Trial',
> but we're getting there. All relationships take time to build.
>
> --
> Jon
>
> Don't anthropomorphosize computers..... they don't like it.
>
>
The reason that voice recognition switchboards seem to work
so well is that they are programmed for a defined and limited
set of responses, so it's easier to do a "best fit" comparison.
Also, the recognition may be done by dedicated voice
recognition hardware which uses analog and digital filtering
to separate the tonal ranges and voice inflection, then uses
software for the dictionary matching.