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01 Aug 2006
Windows Vista will take another shot at introducing voice recognition, and Microsoft at a recent analyst event demonstrated the technology… to show that it's far from ready.
As the video below shows, the applications is unable to recognize the word "mom" and in stead jots down "aunt". It's the first of a series of embarrassing failures.
The company later blamed the failed demo on ambient noises (the audience). But if it knew that speech recognition doesn't work in a large room, why did it give the demo in the first place?
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