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Man, this is hilarious! Maybe he needs a better mike?
ROFLMAO! Progress marches on … HEHE.
This kid is a fucking moron. Funny video though.
Man, this is hilarious! Maybe he needs a better mike?
Comment by Miguel
Actually, he needs to E-NUN-SEE-ATE better.
Imagine writing the next version of Windoze using this speech recognition….
Windows 2100?
J/P=?
BTW.. is the ‘slow down cowboy’ using the same technology?
Buy the programming nerds have really dropped the ball on this one. I mean, you can get a klingon programming language, but no one has come up with a voice recognition optimized programming language yet. It seems like it should be obvious.
Other than that, current programming languages are designed not to work with voice recognition tech.
7# There have been attempts at creating proper voice recognition tools for use with regular programming languages. You can see some demo movies at:
http://tinyurl.com/m8pg8
This guy should first learn to use the tools before he gives a demonstration like this….
I played around with Dragon Speaking about 10 years ago, and it was much better than this. (Did we go backwards in 10 years or could not Microsoft buy out Dragon Speaking? Bill Gates must have bought out a cheapo company to steal their brains and put it into Vista). The problems of this program are not all in the program. (1) You have to train it to understand your accent (weeks), (2) it has to train you to distinctly pronounce (read here separate the syllables clearly) and (3) even then it still won’t be a cure all. These systems are set up to recognize common conversation, so from the get-go, programming speech is pushing the software to do more than what it was designed to do. With a newbie like this guy, it is just funny. But take a typist that knows nothing about computers or programming and get her to type what you say and it will hilarious also! I thought the package I had way back when was very handy, but in the end analysis, a touch typist can always input faster and better than voice recognition (unless he has to use the mouse every third word). Correction of errors is also much easier, but give the guy a break, huh! Even touching typing a letter you still have to go back and correct things USUALLY!
I think the greatest problem here with voice recognition is also a recognition of a subset of vocabulary and activites instead of the entire dictionary. For this use (programming) it needs to have a priority on choices that are programming key words, not general speak.The voice recognition program has to know what type of program it is inputting information into, and then act accordingly.
I found that teaching it to understand me, and for me to understand the tricks to get it to do what I want was far more laborious and frustrating than just typing it myself. If today I get all my fingers cut off, tomorrow I will use it. But until then…. (It is not even installed anymore.)
Can I wish here? Why cannot a voice recognition system recognize what I am doing, and interprete it into something useful and correct? We have grammar and vocabulary checkers on Word Processors, why not run a few million cycles of the CPU to verify and check.
For example using the video above, I would say
“make me an input expression using the variable ‘info”.
Then it makes the code following the correct rules of capitalization etc. according to the software program it is inputting into.
I want a voice recognition system that will not just receive dictation, but will interprete commands and execute them intelligently. If I leave my computer on all night, then it should index everything, and if I ask it to find me a file with x text or by x filename, it should instanteously give it to me. None of this garbage of a thousand files with the phrase that are DLLs, exes, etc.Google gives me a first choice list, and others if what I want is not in my first choice list. This is what it need. Hopeful wishing.
#6 – Maybe Vista was developed using this kind of speech recognition 😀 Man, people came to my cubicle just to see why I was laughing so hard alone 😀
Excellent vid! LMAO!
This reminds me of the handwriting recognition of the early Apple Newtons. That thing gave some pretty weird results as well. At least it never picked up that you were cursing at it and then subsequently translating the curses into text. And the Newton learned from its mistakes.
This is the problem with voice recognition. It is never perfect and you eventually get irritated. At some point you will be yelling at the f-ing computer. At that moment, you will realize that you are acting like an idiot for yelling at a machine and you hang it up and go back to typing.
The only real use for voice recognition is for people that don’t know how to type or physically can’t. Maybe in another couple of dozen years (or decades) when we have desktop quantum computers there will be enough computing power to get voice recognition right.
This is a clear proof of concept demonstration of the much publicized vulnerability of Vista to a malicious hacker that sends nefarious commands via voicemail. We should all be trembling in our shoes with fear. USA Today is right, this is a major security flaw that, as proven here, can easily exploit your computer for nefarious (probably terroristic) purposes.
Has anyone tried turning on their Vista voice recognition while this video is playing? Did your computer explode because it went into an infinite loop of voice recognition, trying to open an infinity of windows?
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