Coding with Vista. No keyboard needed
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And it was in the news recently that Vista's voice recognition technology could be exploited by hackers as a security hole.
I don't think hackers are patient enough. I'll sleep well tonight. ;)
And it was in the news recently that Vista's voice recognition technology could be exploited by hackers as a security hole.
I don't think hackers are patient enough. I'll sleep well tonight. ;)
Maybe it would work better if he stopped mumbling. I think it's a pretty cool feature.
While it was hilarious and I have to admit it really had me laughing, he was being quite dumb about it.
Some of the phrases and commands it did pick up were quite impressive, really. And I'd imagine that it gets better with time. I'm assuming it'd be training the neural nets for each user to grow more accustomed to their voice and inflection and such.
Some of the phrases and commands it did pick up were quite impressive, really. And I'd imagine that it gets better with time. I'm assuming it'd be training the neural nets for each user to grow more accustomed to their voice and inflection and such.
Half of the problem is that the computer can't analyze what he is saying and distinguish between commands and dialogue. Not surprising really. To me it looks like it would work quite well for every day dictation of text. Just have to be careful whet you say in between and who interrupts your session with cups of coffee, phone calls and whatever.
Works a lot better than I had expected.
Works a lot better than I had expected.
Already laughing my ass off and the video isn't even half-done...
Lookin' forward to trying voice-recognition out in the future when the bugs of Vista are done with.
[EDIT] Ok, finished it, and all I have to say is, the thing has potential once it gets in a state where you don't have to enunciate 100% clearly, was surprised when it actually did what the speaker told it to on a few occasions, when I was expecting it to screw up and put a new line of random text below the cursor.
Lookin' forward to trying voice-recognition out in the future when the bugs of Vista are done with.
[EDIT] Ok, finished it, and all I have to say is, the thing has potential once it gets in a state where you don't have to enunciate 100% clearly, was surprised when it actually did what the speaker told it to on a few occasions, when I was expecting it to screw up and put a new line of random text below the cursor.
I've been using Dragon Naturally Speaking for a few weeks now.... works beautifully, but I would never try to program with it.
Dragoon Naturally doesn't work on my computer, says the computer's too advanced to run it. Anyone know any other speech recognition programs that are preferably free?
Dragoon Naturally doesn't work on my computer, says the computer's too advanced to run it.
It works on an SNES, I hear. XD
I can understand why Vista would take 5 years to produce if MS are coding it with this speech method.
I can't think of any other program aid which would promptly induce me to throw the PC out of the window.
I can't think of any other program aid which would promptly induce me to throw the PC out of the window.
I can't think of any other program aid which would promptly induce me to throw the PC out of the window.
I gather you've never encountered the idiot "Paper Clip Personal Assistant" in the Office package.This could be useful for dictation and taking notes, I think it's cool.
I can't think of any other program aid which would promptly induce me to throw the PC out of the window.
Using Linux as a program aid would make me want to throw my computer out the window. :)
The guy is a retard, its voice recognition and he keeps talking to himself and saying thank you.
It could have benefits, but I think in most cases I can type faster and more accurately than this thing can receive input.
No speech recognition is going to work with code, especially not code that uses lots of {}$@# etc. signs.
I tried the command recognition in OS X a while back. I wanted to use it instead of keyboard shortcuts while drawing. I eventually gave up, and installed xGestures instead. Much easier and faster. It was much worse at recognizing commands than Vista seems from that sample, and it was only using predefined commands (not writing any text). I had to speak much clearer than that guy, and still a lot of the time it didn't work. Also, background noise would quickly mess it up. So I'm kind of impressed by the speech recognition in Vista, from what I've seen....actually it's the only thing about Vista that has impressed me. :)
I tried the command recognition in OS X a while back. I wanted to use it instead of keyboard shortcuts while drawing. I eventually gave up, and installed xGestures instead. Much easier and faster. It was much worse at recognizing commands than Vista seems from that sample, and it was only using predefined commands (not writing any text). I had to speak much clearer than that guy, and still a lot of the time it didn't work. Also, background noise would quickly mess it up. So I'm kind of impressed by the speech recognition in Vista, from what I've seen....actually it's the only thing about Vista that has impressed me. :)
Don't forget that you have to train the recognition.
I have a Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 license and I had to spend a long time training it to my accent and fine tuning it to my voice.
With DNS 7 I had to read endless amounts of pre written text that came with the software. Over several weeks I would train and retrain the software to recognise my voice and by the end of it, it was able to recognise my voice and words with 99.9% accuracy.
It's going to be the same for Vista.
I have a Dragon Naturally Speaking 7 license and I had to spend a long time training it to my accent and fine tuning it to my voice.
With DNS 7 I had to read endless amounts of pre written text that came with the software. Over several weeks I would train and retrain the software to recognise my voice and by the end of it, it was able to recognise my voice and words with 99.9% accuracy.
It's going to be the same for Vista.
Try coding something using voice recognition after a few pints of happy juice, there will be a lot more in your code than just keywords.
Well, at least the Delete action works well.
As long as you don't try to code Perl with it, I can see its occasional usefulness for those who can't otherwise type easily, or those who want something typed as they read it.
Those errors? It's really just poor lonely Vista's way of talking to you.
("Don't you think you will cycle fleet?" *Sniff*... it sounds so hopeful, the poor dyslexic thing).
As long as you don't try to code Perl with it, I can see its occasional usefulness for those who can't otherwise type easily, or those who want something typed as they read it.
Those errors? It's really just poor lonely Vista's way of talking to you.
("Don't you think you will cycle fleet?" *Sniff*... it sounds so hopeful, the poor dyslexic thing).
ba ... Latex with that thing. Something with that many /,^ and \ in would be pure fun ^^
Alternatively, you could get on all others nuts if you programmed brainfuck with it :D
Alternatively, you could get on all others nuts if you programmed brainfuck with it :D
This could be useful for dictation and taking notes, I think it's cool.
Yeah, if you wanted totally unintelligible notes. Wanna know the only word that windows advanced text services, speech recognition software identifies every time without fail, regardless of background noise and/or who says it, and how far away? It's "Microsoft". Go figure. Hello.
Perhaps we'll see a resurgence of verbose languages, like COBOL? They'd be ideal, but the thought of programming anything with strong type identifiers and symbols might be a nightmare. Then again, it's about training it to id what you mean when you say 'string' or 'percent' and whether you can teach it that you mean $ and % respectively.
Open Round Bracket, Close Angled Bracket, Open Curly Braces, To the Power of, etc, will get tired pretty quickly though I guess.
Actually, it might make programming in binary really fun :o) 100100000110101101101011100111010111010101010101. All we need are some obsessive compulsive autistic savants and we're sorted. Shouldn't be too hard to find.
Goodbye.
Perhaps we'll see a resurgence of verbose languages, like COBOL? They'd be ideal, but the thought of programming anything with strong type identifiers and symbols might be a nightmare. Then again, it's about training it to id what you mean when you say 'string' or 'percent' and whether you can teach it that you mean $ and % respectively.
Open Round Bracket, Close Angled Bracket, Open Curly Braces, To the Power of, etc, will get tired pretty quickly though I guess.
Actually, it might make programming in binary really fun :o) 100100000110101101101011100111010111010101010101. All we need are some obsessive compulsive autistic savants and we're sorted. Shouldn't be too hard to find.
Goodbye.
This is probably why in star trek they pressed buttons on the keyboard AS WELL as talk to the computer.
LOL got a way to go hasn't it, it will be cool when it does work properly though
The speech recognition on a Mac is just as bad really - good at recognising a few select commands, but thats about it.
The whole system has a very long way to go.
The whole system has a very long way to go.
Did anyone see that program on TV last night about the launch of Vista? They didn't even show barely a single bit of the actual OS, just going on about the marketing and all that "Wow" nonsense.