Last week, I called GEICO to pay my insurance bill and never had to talk to a person. The voice recognition software on their automated system worked flawlessly. It allowed me to select choices, enter my credit card number, and confirm a transaction with 100% accuracy. Needless to say, I was impressed!Yesterday, I just discovered Vista has some awesome voice recognition software built-in:
Voice recognition software has been around for a long time, but it’s only in the last few years that it has become accurate enough and simple enough to use with any regularity. It has also been rather expensive, with “basic” versions running around $80-100 and “premium” versions running to several hundred dollars – prompting many buyers to ask what was missing from the lower-priced versions.Follow the link to find out how to set it-up and get started.
If you have Windows Vista, though, you might be surprised to find that voice recognition is built in – and that it’s pretty good. While it takes some getting used to, with a little practice you’ll soon be able to use speech recognition to create and edit documents as well as to control most of the functions of your computer.
While Vista's voice recognition is not quite as good as GEICO's, it is far closer than I would have ever expected. I can control many of my computer's functions and dictate into my word processor with ~ 90% accuracy. I am surprised and tickled by how well it works..
Today, I added another capability to my tablet PC, downloading PDF Annotator. More on this soon.
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