Vista's Voice Recognition hole
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What's really interesting is that when people want to find something to bash Vista with, they do. Just a few months ago they were saying how crappy the voice recognition was, now they're saying it's so good it's actually unsafe. Go figure. Oh! Just to be clear, I'm not saying you're bashing Vista, but the press "experts" sure are. ---
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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Quite old news but still very funny.
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Very old, when you consider that MacOS has had voice recognition built in for years. Back when I was at university (10 years ago) a friend had a Mac - we had hours of fun standing outside his room and shouting "SHUT DOWN!" "YES!" Which would set his machine into an unstoppable shut-down (the YES countered the "Are you sure you want to shut down" dialog.) In the end, he turned on an extra option that required you to prefix every command with the computer's name (for which he picked a complex foreign word that we couldn't get our tongues around)
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What's really interesting is that when people want to find something to bash Vista with, they do. Just a few months ago they were saying how crappy the voice recognition was, now they're saying it's so good it's actually unsafe. Go figure. Oh! Just to be clear, I'm not saying you're bashing Vista, but the press "experts" sure are. ---
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Carlitos wrote:
Oh! Just to be clear, I'm not saying you're bashing Vista, but the press "experts" sure are.
Just to be clear on my side too..bashing Vista is not my business, I just found it interesting. BTW holes exist everywhere and vista should not be an exception.:)
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Very old, when you consider that MacOS has had voice recognition built in for years. Back when I was at university (10 years ago) a friend had a Mac - we had hours of fun standing outside his room and shouting "SHUT DOWN!" "YES!" Which would set his machine into an unstoppable shut-down (the YES countered the "Are you sure you want to shut down" dialog.) In the end, he turned on an extra option that required you to prefix every command with the computer's name (for which he picked a complex foreign word that we couldn't get our tongues around)
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What's really interesting is that when people want to find something to bash Vista with, they do. Just a few months ago they were saying how crappy the voice recognition was, now they're saying it's so good it's actually unsafe. Go figure. Oh! Just to be clear, I'm not saying you're bashing Vista, but the press "experts" sure are. ---
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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What's really interesting is that when people want to find something to bash Vista with, they do. Just a few months ago they were saying how crappy the voice recognition was, now they're saying it's so good it's actually unsafe. Go figure. Oh! Just to be clear, I'm not saying you're bashing Vista, but the press "experts" sure are. ---
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
So we should all cut Microsoft some slack and not worry about these problems, pretend they don't exist? ;) (BTW I think this particular "hole" is daft because it requires an exacting situation.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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So we should all cut Microsoft some slack and not worry about these problems, pretend they don't exist? ;) (BTW I think this particular "hole" is daft because it requires an exacting situation.)
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
Of course not, but we shouldn't blow it out of proportion as all these reports are doing. And Microsoft should provide a better solution than saying "well, just switch off the speakers when you're away from the PC".
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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I hate to do this, as I am against telling everybody that a thread is a repost. Yet I have to this time: This is a repost. It sure is interesting though :)
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