Saturday, November 10, 2007

11/10/2007 - Vista Oops

We all saw previously how a Microsoft product demonstration can go wrong when the product just stops working. Now here comes a Microsoft product demonstration where the product works, but works poorly. Voice recognition software has always been dodgy at best. Even after months of training the product to recognize your voice and speech pattern, there is always going to be the occasional hiccup where it confuses words that sound alike. It's kinda like that episode of Seinfeld with the lipreader. I guess it could be easy to confuse "sleep" and "sweep", but what we see in this demonstration defies explanation:



After watching these buggy Windows systems, I just hope that the air traffic control system in this country isn't run by Microsoft products.

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