Vista, Speech Wreckognition, and perl

[Bernard Devlin]

The in-built speech recognition of Vista is also something of a  
johnny-come-lately.

IBM's OS/2 had voice type and speech navigation built-in.... back in  
1996.  Yep, more than a decade before Vista.  I tried out the speech  
recognition on OS/2 at the time, running on a P5 133mhz machine with  
32mb of RAM.   The performance might have been slightly slower than  
in that video, but it was also much more accurate than was  
demonstrated in the Perl programming example (and I'm talking about  
accuracy out of the box - I never did any coaching for the speech  
recognition engine in OS/2).

Ten years later, and so little progress.  OS/2 had an object-oriented  
desktop back in version 2.0 (1992).   Microsoft still haven't  
produced the object-oriented OS (Cairo) that they talked up back then  
-- it was obviously just FUD, another way to kill any competition  
(just like the punishment they meted out to any OEM that would pre- 
load OS/2 instead of Windows).


Bernard

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc