Mac OS X comes bundled with a Speech Recognition tool that doesn’t do a lot out of the box, but it’s actually very easy to configure. Here’s an idea of what you can do with it.

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Once you start to type article after article, maybe an e-book in between, you might start feeling the beginning symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. This is a very serious disorder that affects the tendons in your hands and can cause a great deal of pain. It can keep you off the keyboard for long periods of time too! So, getting a program that saves your wrists while it increases your writing speed is really a great investment for you as a content developer.

One of the programs I have tried in the past is Dragon Naturally Speaking 10, which is a tool for Internet marketers who may have a good idea of what they want to say, but have very poor typing skills. It allows them to speak and have the program type the spoken words into a word processor for you. It may take a while to get used to, but the newer version has about a 99% accuracy rate. You will still need to proofread your work before you send it, but generally that makes it even easier to do. If you type something, you will notice that reading it over for grammatical errors is harder for the writer, and that’s why people generally hand off their work to others to proofread. But, if you speak the words, you’re eyes will see the words as new and won’t be as likely to filter out the mistakes when you proofread.

If you can’t imagine how much this program can speed up your writing, think about this. Nuance.com, the makers of Dragon Naturally Speaking 10, estimate that people typically type less than 40 words per minute, but can speak up to 120 words per minute. That’s three times faster! So, if you get into the hang of using this program, you will have the potential to be three times faster than normal!

Now, that isn’t the only benefit you get with Dragon Naturally Speaking 10. You can also search the web much quicker by using web commands to do your surfing. In fact, you can even create word commands that allow you to insert blocks of texts or images into your documents. This is particularly effective for inserting signatures. The program isn’t just used with Microsoft Word. You can also use it with Outlook, Excel, Corel, and WordPerfect. There is even an option to use a hand held device when you’re not near the PC to later use with Dragon Naturally Speaking to insert into your documents. It is also compatible with a nuance-approved Bluetooth headsets.

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Can it really be possible? Windows Vista, the newly released operating of Microsoft, is vulnerable to hacking? Yes, you heard it right. It is possible, according to Microsoft itself. Well, it appears that an audio podcast has the capability of hacking Windows Vista’s speech recognition feature. By using recorded audio commands, hackers can run malicious programs.

Based on an initial investigation conducted by Microsoft, Vista’s speech recognition feature can allow an attacker to execute commands verbally on a user’s computer. The commands, however, are limited to the rights of a certain logged on user. Any commands on the administrative level will be barred by the User Account Control.

Microsoft explains that the hacking can done when the user has a microphone and speakers connected to his or her computer with the speech recognition feature configured. Once these exist, the audio file of an attacker could issue verbal commands through the system’s speakers which could be executed by the speech recognition feature. With this flaw, it is possible for a podcast or any other audio file for that matter to delete documents of a Vista user and empty the trash. Users are advised to disable speech recognition within Vista.

Microsoft assures its customers that it is continuously looking into the issue and will provide more guidance to protect them. To avoid this attack, Vista users are advised to take several steps. First is to turn off their computer speakers and microphone. The next thing to do is to close the Windows Media Player, turn off the speech recognition feature and restart the computer if the user runs an audio file that tries to execute commands on their system. A user can disable speech recognition by going to the speech recognition options and unchecking “run speech recognition at startup.” While there, a user can also disable the default speech profile for the system. This is to avoid the risk of outside voices and noise being recognized as valid for input instead of the user’s own voice.

The recent launching of Microsoft Vista is the biggest ever in the history of Microsoft. It was the grandest launch because of the introduction of both a new Windows and Office operating system. It came five years after Windows XP was introduced. This early, Microsoft officials foresee that Vista will be accepted by people faster compared to other Windows operating systems. For the first two years, the firm expects to sell approximately 200 million copies to businesses and consumers around the world. Vista features unique graphics including 3-D icons and folders with the so-called transparent glass effects. The launch of this new upgrade, originally named Longhorn, had been postponed several times as Microsoft took extra efforts to make sure that Vista will be fully secured from more complex and high-tech Internet attacks.

Microsoft Vista comes in four versions with advanced interface and security tools. To be able to run the system, you will need a minimum of an 800MHz processor, 512 RAM and a hard disk with a 15GB capacity. The firm also guaranteed that Vista will benefit gamers and game developers apart from businesses and regular consumers.

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Credits to scrubadub (check for user: scrubadub1 for more videos like this !) for sharing this first, until he got banned… Here we go again… Please don’t ban me.

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Ever since installing the Leopard update 10.5.2, the speech recognition has been on, reading aloud every title bar when opening a web page, the title of documents, etc. It is getting extremely annoying but even though it shows in the Speech window (under System Preferences) that it is turned off, it is obviously not. Any ideas? Thanks.

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A short demonstration under Armed Assault of the new speech recognition core in pilfius! v0.9 (www.pilfius.com.ar). pilfius! is a free speech recognition application for gamers.

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I want to say something other than start listening to wake up speech recognition. Is there any way to do that?

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