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How Not to Use Speech Recognition

July 11th, 2007

Via Fake Steve Jobs’ diary, this is a pretty hilarious YouTube video of someone trying to use Vista’s speech recognition to write a PERL script. As FSJ notes, it may or may not be a comic play-up of the perils of using speech-driven software. Frankly, however, I was pretty surprised at how well it seemed to react to most spoken commands; at the same time, it plays up problems that would come from using such a system, such as knowing all the specific commands necessary to navigate the system or perform certain tasks–such as making capital letters, as shown in the video. It also rather amusingly shows how human interaction habits, such as saying “thank you” when a request is fulfilled, can muck up the process. In any case, it’s funny to watch. Enjoy.

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