A little utility that turns off Vista’s Speed Recognition (SR) after a few minutes with no activity Keep reading →

Voice in the ‘Voice and Camera’ pod does not function correctly on the Windows Vista platform. After clicking the “start my camera and voice” button in the Camera and Voice pod and then speaking into the microphone, there is no activity on the volume meter indicating that it recognizes voice.

A review of this often bemoaned Vista feature, with a suprising conclusion. Keep reading →

Someone demonstrating the use of Vista’s voice recognition to control a remote control robot. Not sure if this one is real or not as their is lots of background noise (sounds like a party going on) yet almost every command is picked up properly.

When you play an audio file in Windows Vista, voice commands may be unintentionally issued to Windows Speech Recognition. This problem may also occur if an audio file is played when you visit a Web site.

The Microsoft Security Response Center Blog has a post that describes a potential issue with Vista’s speech recognition feature. They say it’s nothing to worry about, the stars would have to align to take advantage of it. So can the ‘hackers’ find a way to make it work? Keep reading →