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

[Chuck Rogers]

All:

A couple of clarifications here:

- Microsoft "rolled their own" speech recognition software. It was  
developed in house and there is nothing about it that is licensed from  
any major speech recognition vendor. According to our sources, there  
are no plans for a Mac version.

- IBM stopped developing all speech recognition products for PC and  
Mac in April of 2003. They went into a distribution arrangement with  
Nuance, makers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, who has been selling  
ViaVoice since then. While Nuance is selling off the remaining  
inventory of ViaVoice (there were a lot of copies), they have not done  
any further development on the product and do not intend to do so. Our  
understanding is that Nuance has no intention of producing a Mac  
product at this time, other than selling the remaining copies of  
ViaVoice, which will not work on Intel Macs.

To that end, iListen remains the only solution for Mac users that will  
run on currently shipping Macs. Our forthcoming Leopard version has  
many improvements, including support for Core Audio, which should  
result in better accuracy for many people (at least that's what the  
majority of our testers are reporting). We will release a Leopard- 
compatible version of iListen as soon as development and testing are  
complete.

As an FYI, iListen is also the only speech recognition program on any  
platform that allows you to dictate directly into virtually any  
Macintosh, Windows, or Linux application (if you are using Parallels  
or VMFusion).



Best Regards,

Chuck Rogers, Chief Evangelist
MacSpeech, Inc.




On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Jeffrey Fay wrote:

> 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-----
>> From: macvoice-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
>> [mailto:macvoice-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of
>> 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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