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Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting

scrubadub1 · 912.6K views · 2007-02-14 · 10:34

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A 2007 video of someone trying to write Perl scripts using Windows Vista speech recognition, with comically bad results. The footage shows the recognizer repeatedly mangling commands.

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Cited as the classic, unintentionally hilarious example of early voice recognition failing, and of how dictation used to feel.

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Computer vision, speech & NLPPython, Ruby & scripting languagesComputing culture (other)
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FabHK · 2023-06 · Joke / meme

As the excellent video "Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting" hilariously demonstrates. (I trust that technology has improved over the last 13 years, though Siri is fairly similar.) [VIDEO]

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MauranKilom · 2022-11 · Reference

Related: [VIDEO] It does look like we've made some progress in the 15 years since. I do wonder how this would work in an office setting though - so much noise, so much distraction, and so much crosstalk between programmers...

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FabHK · 2020-12 · Joke / meme

One of the funniest video on YouTube in my opinion is this 2007 demonstration of voice recognition on Windows Vista for Perl programming. The lad spends the first 4.5 minutes trying to enter „open (INFO“ before typing it out. Absolute classic. „Thank you... delete thank you“ [VIDEO]

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