Microsoft's public relations firm said Monday that the company would not comment on the failed demo. Rosoff said the feature is the result of new voice-recognition APIs (application programming interfaces) Microsoft is building into Vista that will allow users to dictate instead of type content into Office applications such as Word and PowerPoint. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way." "If it had worked perfectly, it would have been great. "It's not something they made a big deal about, and not something we're following as a big reason to upgrade to Vista," he said. Matt Rosoff, an analyst with research firm Directions on Microsoft, said he was "surprised" Microsoft would demonstrate the IVR feature of Vista at FAM. The software experienced several other glitches before the demonstration ended. When he told the software to "fix aunt," it typed "let's set" instead, and then failed to respond to several prompts of "delete that" in an effort to fix the error. When the Microsoft employee told the software to type, "Dear mom," it typed "Dear aunt" instead. It failed to correctly recognize what the Microsoft team member was saying on several occasions, the results inspiring laughter from the crowd of analysts and journalists attending the day-long meeting. If its performance during a demonstration last week at Microsoft's annual Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM) is any indication, a voice-recognition feature in Windows Vista is not quite ready for prime time.Īn interactive voice response (IVR) system in Vista that is supposed to allow a user to dictate text into a Microsoft Word document did not work as expected at the event last Thursday.
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