I have a colleague who's doing quite well with his speech recognition on his
c110, and I'm really envious. On my earlier c100, every time I actually try
to do dictation, I keep getting garbled characters, usually @, in long
strings. As far as I can tell, this is nothing I'm actually "saying" so I'm
figuring it must be coming from ambient noises, like airconditioning. I've
readjusted the mic sensitivity setting numerous times, to no avail.

I suppose it's possible there was some defect on the earliest models. Has
anyone heard of such?

Speech recognition is very dependent upon the environment and training time
you spend, and is best with a voice recognition microphone on the earlier
models. More recent Tablet PC models which use array locating via multiple
built-in microphones like the new Motions and Toshibas are really quite
good.

I'd suggest spending time training your machine (Control Panel/Speech), and
if you can, purchase a voice recognition-specific microphone (headsets are
usually best). These days, they're available for under $30.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone


"Michael S." <ms1005@netzero.net> wrote in message
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>I have a colleague who's doing quite well with his speech recognition on
>his
> c110, and I'm really envious. On my earlier c100, every time I actually
> try
> to do dictation, I keep getting garbled characters, usually @, in long
> strings. As far as I can tell, this is nothing I'm actually "saying" so
> I'm
> figuring it must be coming from ambient noises, like airconditioning. I've
> readjusted the mic sensitivity setting numerous times, to no avail.
>
> I suppose it's possible there was some defect on the earliest models. Has
> anyone heard of such?
>
>
>

Why won't Microsoft take the scrollbar issue with a different approach? In
my opinion, why not we get rid of the mouse-based scrollbars and implement a
gesture that will scroll up and down?

Honestly, Windows is not mature enough for the Tablet, even with Lonestar
installed. The design of Windows currently is flawed when you think of it,
the GUI is built with the mouse as the only input device in mind: Start
button on the bottom left, scrollbars on the right, not to mention the title
bar's buttons; these won't matter for the mouse because the mouse moving
around doesn't obstruct the screen. What you would think naturally is to
change but maintain these features and buttons for compatibility or perhaps
less retraining, but it is best when the entire operating system is built
with the *pure* usability in mind, not compatibility.

Don't get me wrong, I know MS is working towards that, as evident with the
"Flick" and the PIM-style interface for the Tablet, but I'm saying currently
Windows XP is not entirely Tablet PC friendly.