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TechnoratiLast summer, I posted about a cool open-source project from the National Research Council of Canada, known as Voice Code, that allows developers to code by talking. From the demos that I’ve watched, VoiceCode performs very well, and shows promise. However, Windows Vista includes speech recognition functionality, and doesn’t appear to be on par with VoiceCode in terms of recognition accuracy, as evidenced by this poor soul who attempted to create a simple Perl script with his voice.
It took that guy over ten minutes to “write” simple Perl code to read the contents of a file and print them to standard output! Now I know that it’s not completely fair to compare VoiceCode (aimed at software development tasks) to Vista’s speech recognition capabilities (aimed at general computer use and word processing and the like). But that script was not an example of advanced programming techniques and methodologies - there were no classes, functions, ADT definitions or elaborate syntax.
I guess sometimes, you don’t get what you pay for.
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1 Dorian // Feb 22, 2007 at 11:29 am
Wow. That is so sad. I guess yet another reason why not to buy Vista.
I am going to try out the VoiceCode project. Not that I will more productive or anything.
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