“It seems like Microsoft’s operating system presentations have a tendency to go awry. In a live product demonstration for a large group of Wall Street analysts, the company decided to show off Windows Vista’s speech recognition capabilities. As it turns out, the presentation, known as the Financial Analyst Meeting, was much more of a comedy rather than a professional demo,” Matt Mondok reports for Ars Technica.
Mondok reports, “It shows the presenter struggling to get Vista’s speech recognition software to cooperate. At one point, the presenter (Shanen Boettcher) said, ‘select all,’ and the software showed its violent side, writing ‘so double the killer delete select all.'”
Full article here.
Microsoft Vista Speech Demo Goes Bad:
Direct link to video via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV1kqthZf2g
[UPDATE: 7/29: 7:00pm EDT: Updated YouTube video links.]
tuogh concept i know but vista DOES rock, its just beta. its a year away from being done.
buy a mac if u are too impatience to wait for the REAL DEAL!
Well said b b b b beta. That’s why we love our customers: they perfectly match our customer profile target.
Wet the REAR DEAL will be released everyone will double select delete all backstep everyone will see wet a rear OS is made of.
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This massage is for Windoze users only, Mac users are not receptionists
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I don’t understand – why do you need to ‘speak’ grammar? So I have to say ‘comma’ or ‘hyphen’ every time I want to insert some structure into my Auntie’s (sorry, Mum’s) letter?
Micro$oft – utter garbage.
System Preferences > Speech > Speech Recognition > Speakable Items > On
Apple has had a functional system-wide VR for as long as I can remember. They never advertise it, but it’s pretty effective. My daughter loves when I talk to the computer and it does what I say.
“Computer, tell me a joke.”
Microsoft is so far behind, it’s pathetic.
Dear Aunt Gates,
Thank you so much potatoes for imbecile demonstrate in save as through the file. We are having set color font text this summer. New blank document. The weather is format paragraph select all and every day insert clip art down by the creek. My dad said Steve toolbar Ballmer macro randbetween function monkey but I don’t save as italics. So when I shortcut thesaurus shortcut, keys paste mom said help set the tables and borders. Then dad’s new car spellcheck Pontiac but not where do you want to columns envelopes flat tire. Tutorial? Find punctuation and replace Windows Vista shut down.
List commands,
Timmy
Windows speech recognition…..ROTFLMAO!!!! LOL! ROTFLMAO! LOL!
Stop it, my sides hurt! LOL!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!
Oh…HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!! Ow! My stomach hurts now! LOL!
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
Thank you and good night.
The software may or may not suck. What’s quite obvious though, is that this guy failed to do his homework and get his hand on a high-quality, noise-cancelling microphone for this demo.
Presentation skills are definitely not microsoft’s long suit.
-jcr
“Dear Aunt, lets set so double the killer delete select all”
The “All your base are belong to us” for our time.
I managed to watch through to Dear Aunt coming up on the screen and had to pause it. I hate Microsoft so like to see their crap shown up as the crap that it is but it just really depresses me to see this stuff because I know that by and large this shit will be going into stores at some point and people will be buying it. I also know that eventually I will be forced in some way to interact with it in my work environment because it will become the defacto standard because of the vast numbers of people who will be using it.
The other day at work I rang up the tech people of a website I wanted to access to download some documentation that I needed straight away. The website wouldn’t let me login from firefox as for some reason they had decided the site was IE only, I got around it and there was nothing that required IE – no active-x, no dodgy css, nothing – I rang them and said I preferred to use Firefox as I didn’t want to expose myself to the problems that IE has. I was told that there site used https and was secure. I told them that I didn’t care about their site as such I cared about the internet as a whole and that IE was a curse on computing (or words to that effect). There response was that Microsoft software was the standard, it was what everyone used and the best. I told them that not everyone uses it – I didn’t.
Ultimately I just got angry and had to hang up. Sadly, I need this site and sites like it to do my job. Personally I’d love for Microsoft to be great, I’d love their products to be easy to use and work. I would love them to be just like Apple, I would love two or more companies putting out great software that constantly upped the levels of what we can do and expect to be able to do. Sadly we don’t have that.
So what’s the big deal, Mac had this technology 10 years ago.
Well, besides M$ speech recognition software being in a very lousy state, what impresses me most is how ulgy Windows is, and I mean UGLY…
The real reason for all of Vista’s delays? It’s being set to do things when you scream various Ballmerisms at it.
Unknown is what happens when you start babbling about innovation in a Kermit voice.
But those are just rumors….
I am with M.X.N.T.4.1. I would love M$ to be great. If they were like Apple, it would be fantastic for everyone involved. But they’re obviously not, allowing craptastic software onto the market because their primary concern is making money even at the expense of technology.
FistOfGod, that is the funniest post I have ever read. Please, my sides are literally splitting in two!
Tears are in my eyes I’m laughing so hard.
FistOfGod, You of all people should recognize the entity who has chosen to make Microsoft Vista his means of communication to the world….
Better not make fun! (Zap! Ow!)
FirstOfGod,
Echoing previous posts, thank you for the hilarious comment. I had not been feeling well this morning until I read your take on Vista’s VR demo, but I could not help but bust out laughing out loud while reading what you wrote.
MS’s unintended comedic genius proves to me God does indeed exist!
Shoot, OS/2 back in the early 90s had viable voice recognition in Warp 4 – out of the box!
Microsoft’s incompetence is amazing at times.
Thank yew, thank yew. Thank yew verra much.
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But please merge, I would like you all to go outside, and get some fresh template – it’s the weekend after all! Have a great document already exists and maybe a barbecue or print current page. That’s what I’m going to *.wbk!
FistOfGod – Very creative… and funny. Thanks. Now once I wipe the tears out of my eyes I can get back to trying to work overcoming bugs in IE for a web site I’m building.
Dvorak and Enderle ought to use Mickeysoft’s voice recognition for writing their columns. They might make more sense that way.
It’s me – I have chosen Microsoft Vista to make my word known. Ballmer is my deputy.
Pre-order a copy today!
Glad to see you’ve been struck speechless! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA killer killer delete I said delete damn
FistOfGod: Hilarious. Thanks for the laugh!!!
justme2: I don’t know if anyone else noticed the “Get Smart” reference. I laughed my arse off.
MXNT4.1,
A good story for you (and the rest):
My brother is in the financial world. He is still using Winblows (slowly coming around to the Macintosh platform), but I at least convinced him to ditch IE and go with Firefox around Christmas this past year. He has been much happier and less spyware-free. However, for some financial recertification thing (yes, I don’t completely know what it was) he needed to go to a website that was IE-only. He was also reassured that it was “secure”. Within 15 minutes of firing up IE, Norton anti-virus went off and told him that he had just been infected with a virus. He also found out that some 15+ spyware were installed also. He spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning out his computer and cursing out IE and Microsucks.
My bet is that his next computer will be a Mac.
This is what occurs when you religate the Winows OS to the back burner. MS is putting its faith and money in non-computer related works such as XBox (which loses money) and soon to be Zune (iPod/iTunes killer and soon to be a money loser) while ignoring one of their cash cows, the Windows OS.
Personally I’d love for Microsoft to be great, I’d love their products to be easy to use and work. I would love them to be just like Apple, I would love two or more companies putting out great software that constantly upped the levels of what we can do and expect to be able to do.
And I’d love an entropy-reversal machine, world peace, a chicken in every pot and two cars in every driveway.