UberL33t Mac OS X Users

[the_black_angel]

I was talking to a friend of mine today and he was extremely impressed with Mac OS X it was fast it looked nice but the best thing about it was *gasp* voice commands. He watch his aunty tell the computer what to do.

Does windows have this kind of thing. I'm just interested because i had a 3rd party app that could do this on an old performer (Mac OS 7) in 1996!!!
Has windows caught on yet?

[Calum]

HA!

[ravuya]

Heh, that's a good one.

Apple speech recognition has gotten really good in the past few years, the OS X version just kicks the shit out of the one that shipped with 7.5 (I played with it for awhile, but the software was such a kludge...)

[Refalm]

Windows XP has a f**ked up support for speech regocnitian and only VB or C++ programmers or people with a lot of money can somehow manage speech recognitian on Windows XP.

[cocoamix]

I used it for a while with my web browsers.

"Go back, go forward, go home, reload." Omniweb even allowed complete surfing by saying "show link labels" and all the links on a page would be labeled with numbers and you could just say "open link 3."

Very cool, but I don't use it anymore.
It's a great tool for impressing someone with OSX though.

edit. can't fucking spel today.

[ June 27, 2002: Message edited by: cocoamix ]

[bcortens]

Ya I used the speech recognition stuff and it rocks! Don't use it much but it is fun  

[Kintaro]

Windows has spech recignition software availible. From Dragon and IBM.

[choasforages]

on the same note linux has speech software availible from atleast IBM

[the_black_angel]

The point i was trying to get across was that Mac have it out of the box - install Mac OS X and open a game called chess ( guess what it is    ) and it will bring up a voice recognition panel, works straight away.

Only problem is there is no built-in mic and the mic socket won't properly?? on my tower  

[choasforages]

i know, and most macintoshes can talk to you

[the_black_angel]

I know and i've even heard a rumor of a project to improve the recognition so that you will not need to use a mouse    

And also impliment a doors style interface for Mac OS X (dual 800 machine and higher!) which you walk through "hallways" and choose the door you wish to go through!!! sounds nice

[TheQuirk]

I've seen something of the sort. It was in Israel and I was watching them sell a pentiumII or III on TV. They included lots of doo hinkies, and one of them was an OS (or at least a program) that would launch applications from walking into rooms -- there  were even gardens!