Demonstration movie of speech recognition function which can operate all Windows Vista

For general users, Windows Vista is planning to ship from January next year, but one of its latest functions is "you can operate all functions with voice recognition".

It is possible to activate the program, click on the button, every operation can be done by voice only. Especially it seems to be useful for viewing pages and viewing images one by one. It is more powerful than I imagined.

In Microsoft demonstration movie, I am making a great mistake. It also introduces it. I can laugh when I compare it.
First of all, from the demo movie that works well with speech recognition.

Vista speech recognition screencast: It works! At istartedsomething

QuickTime version (28.8 MB)

WindowsMedia version (23.3 MB)

Every operation is really possible with voice only. It is also possible to enter the address field of the browser, etc. It is possible to display candidates of recognized domains in a list and select by number. Paint can also be manipulated so if it's easy to draw, it will be made only by voice. I can operate games such as solitaire, feeling that I can really do anything.

Details are written on Microsoft's site.

Step-by-step guide to speech recognition in Windows Vista

However, somehow Microsoft's speech recognition demonstration was a big failure ....

Technobahn - Microsoft, Vista Speech Recognition System Public Demo Completely Failed

When Mr. Boecher reads out as "Dear Mom (Dear mother, punctuation mark)", it is displayed on the computer as "Dear Aunt" (Dear uncle). Next, I try to enter "fix aunt, fix aunt (" correct my uncle "part, fix the part of" uncle ")" to fix the part that was incorrectly recognized, but I do not recognize it at all Without This is the sentence displayed in the vocabulary trying to recover variously.

"Dear aunt, lets set so double the killer delete select all (Dear uncle, please pay twice as much to the killer and clear everything) "

"Dear uncle, pay twice as much to a killer and clear all things" ... How surreal it is? This case became known all over the world through Reuters.

UPDATED - When good demos go (very, very) bad - Reuters Newsblogs

And the valuable video here.

MSNBC deceived the public: Vista's speech recognition demo at istartedsomething

Ouke at the venue.