In article <Xns9C52542095CE3thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS
<t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> > > Last time I checked, this _is_ a NG about Windows and Vista.[/color]
> >
> > Nice try, but you never even mentioned Vista speech recognition at all in
> > the post....only Dragon Naturally Speaking.
> >[/color][/color]
Mark Conrad wrote:[color=blue]
> Microsoft Vista does a pretty good job sucking in trivial users
> of speech recognition.[/color]

So, you are blind also? Pity.

Mark-

In article <230720092123415455%none-of@your-business.invalid>, Mark
Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote:

I see no one here cared to comment one way or the other
about the _content_ of my original post in this
thread, namely the content of my post that wrote about
there being something even more important than
wasting time.

The content is about the *GENERAL* damage which
can occur inside *Windows* when running *Vista*
which was created by *Microsoft* by this member (me)
of the *Public*.

Specifically, damage which occurs do to the (normal)
failing of human memory.

Now, offhand, can you think of anything more suitable
to be seriously discussed in:

microsoft.public.vista.general



Anyone have any thoughts about whether the following
warrants serious consideration? ...or not?

If not, would you please enlighten me as to *WHY*
the content of my post does not warrant serious comment.

....or is that too much to ask of this group?


Partial Content of the original post in this thread:
-------------------------------[color=blue]
> But there is something much more serious than
> merely wasting time, it has to do with flawed
> human memory, which I will address now, in a
> round-about fashion.
>
>
> When we are _away_ from our PCs...
>
> ...which is most of the time, often we may have had
> "great thoughts", any one of which could have used
> to make ourselves made bundles of money, and possibly
> employed lots of people.
>
> Shamefull, shamefull, shameful, I blame all of us for
> the present worldwide recession. If we only had the
> presence-of-mind to take our tiny Olympus DS-5000
> digital recorder along with us, those great ideas would
> have enabled all of us to be rolling in clover right now.
>
> As it stands, every one of those great ideas died,
> a victim of our flawed memory.
>
> Look how easy it would have been for us to save
> the world from its current financial woes:
>
> 1) Slap our DS-5000 digital recorder into the
> PCs USB connection. Upon connecting it,
> the audio file gets _automatically_ changed
> to text.
> (three minutes at most, seriously,
> "Dragon NaturallySpeaking" will automatically
> convert the audio to a text file)
>
> Driver disk to help do this comes with the DS-5000.
>
>
>
> 2) By voice, clean up, edit, format the text file.
>
> Example of voice editing:
>
> "Select 'smelly guy in turban and big diaper' "
>
> "ResumeWith 'intelligent Indian intellectual' "
>
> Voice editing goes lightening fast, our total
> editing time on our world-changing document
> estimated at 6-minutes instead of the usual 36
> minutes for a slow typist like me, at 10wpm.
>
>
> In the case of a fast typist (60wpm) there would
> not be any benefit either way, it would likely
> take 6-minutes to edit no matter which way the
> editing was done.
>
> 3) Plop the finished document onto the Internet
> by voice commands, takes a few seconds.
>
> Total time to field the plan to change the world
> from economic slump to a bustling economy,
> 10 minutes.
>
>
> All my fault for not pushing Dragon speech
> technology, as others here would have added their
> own Dragon-powered schemes to mine, creating a
> healthy bustling world economy.
>
> Now don't tell me that you have never thought of
> some logical scheme to do some great thing, only to
> have it flushed out of your brain by mundane stuff
> which needed your immediate attention.[/color]

Mark Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in
news:240720091400025946%none-of@your-business.invalid:
[color=blue]
> In article <Xns9C52542095CE3thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS
> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>> > > Last time I checked, this _is_ a NG about Windows and Vista.
>> >
>> > Nice try, but you never even mentioned Vista speech recognition at
>> > all in the post....only Dragon Naturally Speaking.
>> >[/color][/color]
> Mark Conrad wrote:[color=green]
>> Microsoft Vista does a pretty good job sucking in trivial users
>> of speech recognition.[/color]
>
> So, you are blind also? Pity.[/color]

No. Your OP only mentioned DNS, and never once mentioned the built in Vista
voice recongnition. I just reread it again.

Is it better to be blind or imagine things that aren't really there ?

Mark Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in
news:240720091452546227%none-of@your-business.invalid:
[color=blue]
> In article <230720092123415455%none-of@your-business.invalid>, Mark
> Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote:
>
> I see no one here cared to comment one way or the other
> about the _content_ of my original post in this
> thread, namely the content of my post that wrote about
> there being something even more important than
> wasting time.
>
> The content is about the *GENERAL* damage which
> can occur inside *Windows* when running *Vista*
> which was created by *Microsoft* by this member (me)
> of the *Public*.
>
> Specifically, damage which occurs do to the (normal)
> failing of human memory.
>
> Now, offhand, can you think of anything more suitable
> to be seriously discussed in:
>
> microsoft.public.vista.general
>
>
>
> Anyone have any thoughts about whether the following
> warrants serious consideration? ...or not?
>
> If not, would you please enlighten me as to *WHY*
> the content of my post does not warrant serious comment.[/color]

The content has nothing to do with Vista and everything to do with you
crying about a failing memory and Dragon Naturally Speaking.

The only 'damage' I read about was you still being poor because you could
never remember any of those wild ideas you thought could make you big
money when you weren't near your PC to record them.






[color=blue]
>
> ...or is that too much to ask of this group?
>
>
> Partial Content of the original post in this thread:
> -------------------------------[color=green]
>> But there is something much more serious than
>> merely wasting time, it has to do with flawed
>> human memory, which I will address now, in a
>> round-about fashion.
>>
>>
>> When we are _away_ from our PCs...
>>
>> ...which is most of the time, often we may have had
>> "great thoughts", any one of which could have used
>> to make ourselves made bundles of money, and possibly
>> employed lots of people.
>>
>> Shamefull, shamefull, shameful, I blame all of us for
>> the present worldwide recession. If we only had the
>> presence-of-mind to take our tiny Olympus DS-5000
>> digital recorder along with us, those great ideas would
>> have enabled all of us to be rolling in clover right now.
>>
>> As it stands, every one of those great ideas died,
>> a victim of our flawed memory.
>>
>> Look how easy it would have been for us to save
>> the world from its current financial woes:
>>
>> 1) Slap our DS-5000 digital recorder into the
>> PCs USB connection. Upon connecting it,
>> the audio file gets _automatically_ changed
>> to text.
>> (three minutes at most, seriously,
>> "Dragon NaturallySpeaking" will automatically
>> convert the audio to a text file)
>>
>> Driver disk to help do this comes with the DS-5000.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2) By voice, clean up, edit, format the text file.
>>
>> Example of voice editing:
>>
>> "Select 'smelly guy in turban and big diaper' "
>>
>> "ResumeWith 'intelligent Indian intellectual' "
>>
>> Voice editing goes lightening fast, our total
>> editing time on our world-changing document
>> estimated at 6-minutes instead of the usual 36
>> minutes for a slow typist like me, at 10wpm.
>>
>>
>> In the case of a fast typist (60wpm) there would
>> not be any benefit either way, it would likely
>> take 6-minutes to edit no matter which way the
>> editing was done.
>>
>> 3) Plop the finished document onto the Internet
>> by voice commands, takes a few seconds.
>>
>> Total time to field the plan to change the world
>> from economic slump to a bustling economy,
>> 10 minutes.
>>
>>
>> All my fault for not pushing Dragon speech
>> technology, as others here would have added their
>> own Dragon-powered schemes to mine, creating a
>> healthy bustling world economy.
>>
>> Now don't tell me that you have never thought of
>> some logical scheme to do some great thing, only to
>> have it flushed out of your brain by mundane stuff
>> which needed your immediate attention.[/color]
>[/color]

In article <Xns9C52ECFE726E1thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS
<t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
> > Anyone have any thoughts about whether the following
> > warrants serious consideration? ...or not?
> >
> > If not, would you please enlighten me as to *WHY*
> > the content of my post does not warrant serious comment.[/color]
>
> The content has nothing to do with Vista[/color]

It certainly does, without Vista my entire content would not
apply, because Dragon medical needs Vista to even run.

Dragon medical will not run on XP, so this is yet another
one of your lies, intended to confuse readers of this thread.

[color=blue]
> ...and everything to do with you crying
> about a failing memory...[/color]

It is well known that human memory is faulty,
so of course I will state that a doctor who relies
on faulty memory is risking the lives of his patients.

YOU are the one who labled this as "crying", in your
ongoing efforts to mislead the readers of this thread.


[color=blue]
> The only 'damage' I read about was you still being poor
> because you could never remember any of those wild ideas
> you thought could make you big money when you weren't
> near your PC to record them.[/color]

"Only"? Yet another of your outright lies.

You conveniently ignored all the statements I made about
how the _doctors_ flawed memory could cause
the death of their patients.

To you, that serious subject is something to be ignored
and lied about.

Mark-

Mark Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in
news:250720090456545759%none-of@your-business.invalid:
[color=blue]
> In article <Xns9C52ECFE726E1thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS
> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>> > Anyone have any thoughts about whether the following
>> > warrants serious consideration? ...or not?
>> >
>> > If not, would you please enlighten me as to *WHY*
>> > the content of my post does not warrant serious comment.[/color]
>>
>> The content has nothing to do with Vista[/color]
>
> It certainly does, without Vista my entire content would not
> apply, because Dragon medical needs Vista to even run.
>
> Dragon medical will not run on XP, so this is yet another
> one of your lies, intended to confuse readers of this thread.[/color]

Do you want to see how wrong you are ?

[url]http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/medical.asp[/url]

Click the 'Tech Specs' tab part way down the page. You will see this:

Supported Operating Systems:

* Windows Server 2000
* Windows Server 2003
* Windows XP, SP2 or higher, Home or Professional
* Windows 2000, SP4 or higher
* Windows Vista™ or Windows Vista™ SP1, 32-bit
* Citrix® MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0 or 4.5

So who's talking out their a** ? That would be you.
[color=blue]
>
>[color=green]
>> ...and everything to do with you crying
>> about a failing memory...[/color]
>
> It is well known that human memory is faulty,
> so of course I will state that a doctor who relies
> on faulty memory is risking the lives of his patients.
>
> YOU are the one who labled this as "crying", in your
> ongoing efforts to mislead the readers of this thread.
>
>
>[color=green]
>> The only 'damage' I read about was you still being poor
>> because you could never remember any of those wild ideas
>> you thought could make you big money when you weren't
>> near your PC to record them.[/color]
>
> "Only"? Yet another of your outright lies.
>
> You conveniently ignored all the statements I made about
> how the _doctors_ flawed memory could cause
> the death of their patients.
>
> To you, that serious subject is something to be ignored
> and lied about.[/color]

You ARE whack !!!!!!! You never mentioned anything about doctors failing
memories in this thread. You are delusional.

The only place you mention doctors in this thread that I saw was this
statement:

Heck, the doctors/hospitals might even buy Ubuntu <shudder>
if it were not for the fact that that steaming POS can't run Dragon.

I'm wondering if you even have Vista, as you're posting from a Mac !!!!!

You truly are an a**.

In article <Xns9C535825EED1Fthisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS
<t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
[color=blue]
> So who's talking out their a** ? That would be you.[/color]

So who is talking out their a** except you?


From your own post:

* Windows Vista™ or Windows Vista™ SP1, 32-bit

32-bit you moron, Dragon medical requires 64-bit.

If you want to revert to old 32-bit OSs that is your choice.

Mark-

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:11:05 -0500, DanS wrote:
[color=blue]
> Mark Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in
> news:240720091400025946%none-of@your-business.invalid:
>[color=green]
>> In article <Xns9C52542095CE3thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS
>> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> > > Last time I checked, this _is_ a NG about Windows and Vista.
>>> >
>>> > Nice try, but you never even mentioned Vista speech recognition at
>>> > all in the post....only Dragon Naturally Speaking.
>>> >[/color]
>> Mark Conrad wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Microsoft Vista does a pretty good job sucking in trivial users
>>> of speech recognition.[/color]
>>
>> So, you are blind also? Pity.[/color]
>
> No. Your OP only mentioned DNS, and never once mentioned the built in Vista
> voice recongnition. I just reread it again.
>
> Is it better to be blind or imagine things that aren't really there ?[/color]

Well, the latter can be a lot of fun. People even smoke weird stuff to make
it happen. Just sayin'...

--
Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Mark Conrad <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in
news:250720091235288571%none-of@your-business.invalid:
[color=blue]
> In article <Xns9C535825EED1Fthisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS
> <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> So who's talking out their a** ? That would be you.[/color]
>
> So who is talking out their a** except you?
>
>
> From your own post:
>
> * Windows Vista™ or Windows Vista™ SP1, 32-bit
>
> 32-bit you moron, Dragon medical requires 64-bit.
>
> If you want to revert to old 32-bit OSs that is your choice.
>
> Mark-[/color]

Mark, you ignorant, f'd up troll.

Where's the rest of the list of OS's that DNS runs on ? The whole list
from my post.....which was cut & pasted from the DNS publishers website.

It doesn't *require* Vista 64 bit. Version 10.1 is an update to v 10.0
that *will run on Vista 64.

From the website......

"Installs and Runs on Microsoft Vista 64-bit computers
Runs on many operating systems, including Windows Vista 64-bit
In addition to 32-bit operating systems, Dragon 10.1 can be installed and
used on within a Vista 64-bit environment. Customers using many of the
latest laptops and desktop PCs that ship with the Vista 64-bit operating
system can use Dragon 10.1 in the same manner as other operating systems.
"

Can you read the sentences above ?..........."Runs on many operating
systems, including Windows Vista 64-bit".....

......and......

"In addition to 32-bit operating systems, Dragon 10.1 can be installed
and used on within a Vista 64-bit environment."

What do those sentences mean ? Go back to your 3rd grade teacher and see
if he/she can help you diagram these sentences so you may be able to
understand them. (3rd grade....when as that for you....one or two years
ago ?)


Remember, here is what YOU said........

",because Dragon medical needs Vista to even run."

"Dragon medical will not run on XP, so this is yet another
one of your lies, intended to confuse readers of this thread."

I have proven those statements to be complete and utter fabrications and
stupidity twice already.....would you like to go for a third ?

(Please refer to the post of mine directly prior to your post that I am
replying to now. This is the OP that has the web URL and cut & pasted
info from Nuance of system requirements.)

In article <Xns9C546375C2B11thisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, DanS
<t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
[color=blue]
> "In addition to 32-bit operating systems, Dragon 10.1 can be installed
> and used on within a Vista 64-bit environment."[/color]

Wat-bout-dat, you are correct! Below pertains to
Dragon 10.1 full medical version:

<[url]http://shop.nuance.com/store/nuanceus/DisplayProductDetailsPage/product[/url]
ID.111902800/pgm.20015400>


Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003,
Windows XP, SP2 or higher - 32/64 bit - Home & Prof, Windows 2000, SP4
or higher, Windows Vista’Ñ¢ or Windows Vista’Ñ¢ SP1, 32/64-bit, Citrix
MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0 or 4.5


Regaining my faith in human nature, now that I found that
abusing insulting posters like you are not all bad.

As I recall it, Dragon is still not optimized to take full advantage
of 64-bit OSs, that would take a full rewrite of Dragon low-level
code, which Nuance will not do until it is worth their while to do so.

(years from now, I bet)

Mark-

Mark, I thought you were dead! (Wishful thinking!) Still dead in the head,
though I see!
I see you are still trying to promote your Dragon Naturally Speaking product
in a Microsoft Vista forum. How long has it been now since you have been
doing this? Lon-g-g-g-g-g time!!

Aren't you in a Californian sanatorium yet? That's the closest you ever get
to being a consultant (as a patient who thinks he's one)

So you are STILL trying to drum up trade for those losers at Nuance I see.
Well its OBVIOUSLY NOT working!

I see you still haven't lost your touch in alienating everybody in a
newsgroup wherever you pop-up - (no change there then).

You see, they are getting pretty used to you now and the same old rubbish
you spout. Soon you will be ignored completely. You had no pals before, now
you have minus no pals! Oh, I do apologise, there is your one pal, the
infamous John Doe, and he is called that because as the name suggests, he is
still on a slab awaiting an autopsy.

Most people in this newsgroup know that you are a retired, washed up
eccentric, with delusions of grandeur and a *has been* with too much time on
his hands.

If you give him an inch of an opening readers, the whole course of the
conversation will be diverted to a DNS forum. Best not to. I am afraid
there is no help for this bad penny.

The clue to answering this post is in the title. Are personal computers a
"waste of time?"

My answer - They are only a waste of time, if you waste your time on them.

For me, they are actually a Godsend and I will tell you why. I am disabled
and became a quadriplegic after a car accident five years ago. Therefore, I
cannot use my hands even if I wanted to now.

I have been using Windows Vista Speech Recognition for a year and a half now
and it has given me the freedom to communicate, such as in these forums but
generally as well to the outside world. So for me, with WSR, it is a
necessity, so computers are definitely not a waste of time, they give me
stimulus and freedom, quite the opposite to this posts title really.

Now for mark conrad, who is a fully abled person, (apart from his mind),
he's computer and DNS components are an obsession, a very unhealthy
obsession may I say. After all, it is only his hobby. Therefore, for him,
yes, it is a complete waste of time and definitely a waste of time is his
promotion of the DNS Product in here which he has been doing since Kennedy
died!

You have to ask yourself, why somebody would come into a Microsoft Vista
forum badmouthing the programmes it contains and trying to promote a Dragon
program that has nothing to do with this forum. He feels he has to because
they need the publicity and they are obviously in trouble.

Rats from a sinking ship spring to mind!

You do not see Windows Vista recognition reps in here trying to promote WSR.
That is because they do not need to :-)
[color=blue]
> Well, we all probably waste time when playing with our
> computers.[/color]

Speak for yourself! Stop wasting your time then and stop!
[color=blue]
> It was _your_ decision to read my post, so you are
> the guy responsible for wasting your time, not me.[/color]

Yes, I am guilty of that also, more fool me, but I had to set the record
straight on your obvious bullsh*t.
[color=blue]
> BTW, my post is not OT[/color]

Yes it is!! They all are!! Read the other people's posts and take them in.
Only YOU think your post is not OT!
[color=blue]
> Last time I checked, this _is_ a NG about Windows and Vista.[/color]

Yes and not about Dragon Naturally Speaking!

He has used that line before as well in previous times. Sad really, this
just endorses his dementia is getting worse. Reminds me of the mouse going
round and round in his little wheel and not getting anywhere.
[color=blue]
> Microsoft Vista does a pretty good job sucking in trivial users
> of speech recognition. They invariably become dissatisfied
> with the inaccuracy of Vista Speech, so a fair percentage of
> them go for a more robust speech app like
> Dragon NaturallySpeaking.[/color]

Bulls-eye!! Wondered when that was coming - he has posted this time and
time again before - see how he has changed the concept of this post to
become a Dragon Naturally Speaking post - happens just like clockwork just
like all his other posts in the past.

Now what was the title of the post - Err...Are personal computers a "waste
of time?" In his tiny one dimensional mind, this relates to the Dragon
Program. Such a shame, he could have been somebody.

Mark, do not get emotionally attached to a speech app. You know it is bad
for your blood pressure.
[color=blue]
> Microsoft Vista does a pretty good job sucking in trivial users
> of speech recognition.[/color]

I feel a sense of Déjà vu coming on (a state of boring familiarity or
repetitiveness). Yawn! Heard it all before!

The only thing that gets sucked in, is your head. It must be so far up your
ass now, you can see your false teeth chattering away from the inside.

I use Windows Vista Speech Recognition and I would not call myself a
*trivial user*. I use it because I have to; I am disabled and cannot use my
hands to type so I have a valid reason.
[color=blue]
>They invariably become dissatisfied
> with the inaccuracy of Vista Speech, so a fair percentage of
> them go for a more robust speech app like
> Dragon NaturallySpeaking[/color]

< rig-h-t-t-t, blah blah blah! And on and on... Snip OT drivel>

First of all, I am very satisfied with WSR so you got that one wrong for a
start. I have used DNS and WSR and always reverted back to the latter
because I have found DNS slow, frustrating and ridiculously overpriced for
what it is AND WSR has the "show numbers" command which is patent pending
only to that program which DNS and Nuance are wholly jealous of. Even Lunis
Orcutt of the KnowBrainer forums Website who promotes and sells DNS,
admitted it. Too bad DNS will never have that!

As for being inaccurate, I have dictated all this post with 99% pure
accuracy as you can see, there are no spelling mistakes especially with the
equipment I have now. I had to correct one word, which I did not pronounce
properly so that was my fault, not the equipments or the program.

Next, he will be telling you about how he spends all of his welfare cheque
on DNS and microphone equipment and then he will go into great detail about
all the model numbers of his microphones and versions of DNS he has, right
down to the last macro! BORING!!!

Then he will post some writings about Mary Poppins using words like
*supercalifragilisticexpialidocious* and a certain female astronaut with a
funny name, which are his examples of showing how clever he is using speech
recognition. (In his tiny mind that is).

I told you before Mark; there is more to life than DNS. Try spending some
of your welfare cheque on a vacation instead. You may find yourself
pleasantly enjoying it! Either that or follow lemmings to their most
popular haunts!!

So you have DNS Medical 10 now. (Yawn!) So what? I hope it can spell better
than your last version, that was atrocious and how much does it cost now??
Ridiculously over priced POS. Think what you could have used that extra
money for! You can have bought yourself a new life!

I have learnt a lot lot MORE about speech recognition and acquired a lot
lot MORE speech recognition equipment and related applications since the
last time we unfortunately conversed (what a waste of time & energy that
was) not to mention I have reserved a copy of Windows 7 in which the speech
recognition app is even more powerful, accurate and cleverer than before.

I will not go into detail about the equipment I now have because I remember
how boring it was when you did it way back in the black-and-white television
days and how readers lost interest after the first sentence.

Suffice to say that I can dictate, make macros browse the Web with great
speed and ease like never before with what I have now and best of all, I do
not need the overpriced DNS programmes.
[color=blue]
>Microsoft still wins,[/color]

Sh*t happens, Get over it!

< Snip the rest, lot of OT drivel >

Heard it all before!!


andy t


"Mark Conrad" <none-of@your-business.invalid> wrote in message
news:240720090248465115%none-of@your-business.invalid...[color=blue]
> In article <4rei6555694m8js17518mr9b53cpf47rlh@4ax.com>, Bill Daggett
> <Daggett@wmunny.invalid> wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>> >Well, we all probably waste time when playing with our
>> >computers.[/color]
>>
>> [snip of a lot of OT drivel]
>>
>> And some of us - you, for example - waste a lot of
>> other people's time as well as our own.[/color]
>
> It was _your_ decision to read my post, so you are
> the guy responsible for wasting your time, not me.
>
> BTW, my post is not OT when you consider that Microsoft
> Vista OS goes out of the way to include a half-vast speech
> recognition app as part of the Vista OS.
>
> Last time I checked, this _is_ a NG about Windows and Vista.
>
>
> Microsoft Vista does a pretty good job sucking in trivial users
> of speech recognition. They invariably become dissatisfied
> with the inaccuracy of Vista Speech, so a fair percentage of
> them go for a more robust speech app like
> Dragon NaturallySpeaking.
>
> Microsoft still wins, they get added sales of their OS from
> doctors and hospitals, who would not otherwise buy the OS
> if it could not be used for serious speech recognition chores.
>
> Heck, the doctors/hospitals might even buy Ubuntu <shudder>
> if it were not for the fact that that steaming POS can't run Dragon.
>
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