We wanted to ensure it would have the best chance of getting words correctly, so my wife went through the included tutorial meant to make the system better learn your voice patterns. After reading sentence after fragmented sentence for a good part of ten minutes, we were finally ready to try out the real program. We chose to start with Firefox, which is mostly what my wife uses. Let me just say it doesn't work with Firefox, at least not easily. There was no easy way to even get to the address bar or have it type something in the Google text box when searching. Ok, so forget Firefox, moving on to WordPad, which the tutorial suggested would rock with speech recognition.
All I have to say about the speech recognition in WordPad is, "WTF?!" Let me just provide a quote of what it thought we said in paragraph:
Sure, can slow down into the late in the back of a team of her eye you on track whole new to win this election rally allow all ireland's body to my computer and now last five men who can bring I think you need all of them are hoping my family home evening and really off from it by a well be very deliberately all black weakening of October will develop a living that you could write an essay by limit the use of your alarm off PM close
Now I don't really know what we said, but I can tell you it certainly wasn't that crap. My wife got a real kick out of it though and read over what the speech recognition thought we said and it produced the next beauty of a paragraph.
Sherri camouflage out and elections in Israel over a high you want to call the land of blacks and Ronnie Allen is behind some of the computer and not what had been given in all of them are helping my family home evening and really costs from its title and he married literally all last week in an October Nelson reduced even it made no limits the use of your alarm of the Anglos
Ok, so at this point its kind of like trying to teach a two year old how to talk except they have quite a vocabulary already just no knowledge of how to string words together. So I don't know where Microsoft was going with this speech recognition but it turned out to get a huge laugh out of both of us so maybe it's a comedy application. Ha ha, Microsoft, I get it!
