I just finished some basic playing around with the voice recognition on Windows Vista (I'm running RC2) on my Gateway laptop utilizing a Logitech USB 250 headset.
The setup and tutorial is a bit repetitive and time-consuming (around 20 minutes total), but I suppose it needs to be! This tutorial does a great job of walking you through basic commands for controlling Windows and dictation. Right now my girlfriend's 9 year old daughter, Hannah, is making her way through the tutorial under her new Vista account and seems to be doing well!
I'm very impressed! I haven't messed with voice recognition since Dragon Naturally Speaking probably about a decade ago, so obviously it has come a LONG way. The system integration is phenomenal. I was having a lot of fun with "launch internet explorer", "close window", "switch to wordpad", etc.
I'm an Internet geek, so I will have to practice with using the VR to control Internet Explorer in ways that I often use it. "Show Numbers" seems to be the most used command right now. I tried to make my way through GMail with it, but I was having a hard time selecting a recipient through the dynamic dropdown in the TO: box. My guess is that I either can't or there is a trick. I'll continue to play around with it, and maybe update this post using Vista's Voice Recognition.
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