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1. Brytown

   
   Posted on: September 20, 2007 at 12:51PM  

   Ive always been interested in this maybe about a week before i got vista my mic broke or a month sometime between then. I saw a demo of it on the net this guy navigating the net launching programs ext you can see where it needs work. But its defiantly come a LONGGGGG way since good ol "You talk it types" where yelling AHHHHH into the mic resulted in "SDFGDFGFD" or having to say thaaa instead of "thee" or "I" realllly fast or u get eye. I thought the demo was really smart the way it queried top possible things u said and was spot on with top 2 matches at least. I really hope they expand upon this and i TOTALLY forgot it existed in vista until until  blog entry.
2. newscientist2000

   
   Posted on: September 20, 2007 at 7:25PM  

   Ah I remember when I first tried speech to text in Office XP, pretty cool although my accent confused it somewhat so I never used the feature that much.

   Im sure that speech recognition has improved though since those early days, as now the computers on the ends of automated answering machines can recognise my words much better.

   I will have to give speech recognition a try again soon in Vista and Office 2007 to see how much better it is.
3. NexteR

   
   Posted on: September 24, 2007 at 1:29AM  

   hey nick,

   Here is a suggestion, if you really want to make speech reco work.

   If you have a learning algo for the reco program, then you can give tutorial updates once in while,along with windows update. This means you need to "TRAIN" your program once in a while,to let SpeechReco comprehend a whole new set of voice patterns.

   In more simpler words,it will be like taking a kid through different grades,colleges and then its major in an indivdual's voice patterns.

   Hope you got me through!
4. LiveGadgets

   
   Posted on: September 24, 2007 at 5:08PM  

   Today I released version 2 of the Say It! gadget. It extends Vista's built in text-to-speech technology to the Sidebar.

   Check it out at: http://www.livegadgets.net/sidebar/sayit
5. jejo

   
   Posted on: December 24, 2007 at 10:42AM  

   I am really new to Vista and Text to Speech, I'm not real techie about computers so that may complicate things.  

   Recently I activated T2S and now my computer is doing some weird things. When I'm on the internet I get "bounced" out of sites I'm viewing or if I'm checking email, I get bounced out of the email I'm reading back to the inbox.  When searching, I get bounced out of the search page I'm viewing to my home page.  

   Another issue that has come up since starting to use text to speech is that many times my computer is unresponsive and I have to ctrl, alt, delete.  A screen appears giving me numberous choices, I just click cancel and then I can continue with what I was doing.  This is happening way too much - what do I do about these two problems?
6. Nick White

   
   Posted on: December 27, 2007 at 2:05AM  

   Hey jejo:  your inquiry is perhaps better fielded by the Speech team itself, whom you can reach via listen@microsoft.com.