[MV] Is Windows Vista Speech Recognition equivalent to DragonNaturally Speaking on the PC

[Jeffrey Fay]

As I recall, Microsoft purchased IBM's Via Voice voice recognition
software several years ago. I'd bet Vista's voice recognition is based on
that.

Jeff


tscheresky at micron.com wrote:
> The speech recognition in Vista is Microsoft's, and is not licensed from
> DNS.  Some day it may be up to par with DNS, but right now it's not.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> John F. Richardson
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 2:59 PM
> To: 'A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh.'
> Subject: [MV] Is Windows Vista Speech Recognition equivalent to
> DragonNaturally Speaking on the PC
>
> Hello,
>
> I only use the Macintosh and this is just for comparison purposes of the
> built in features.
>
> Windows Vista has built in speech recognition. Looking at the Microsoft
> accessability web site it seems that the speech recognition is
> continuous speech recognition. Is the Vista speech engine licensed from
> DNS or equivalent to DNS?
>
> The web site indicates that the user can fill out forms on the web and
> other functions.
>
> John F. Richardson
>
>
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