It seems voice recognition in XP only supports US English, simplified Chinese and Japanese at
the moment. It doesn't seem clear whether it allows full-blown dictation or just dictation into
command/dialogue boxes.
They've also incorporated scanning/OCR.
More info at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/xp/XPguide.doc
and for an accessibility slant, refer to
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/officexp/features.htm
Ian Francis
On 4 May 2001, at 13:37, Stuart Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You're quite right that L&H Voice Recognition Technology has been
> incorporated into the upcoming Office XP.
> Funny you should mention this but Microsoft has recently sent our computer
> centre a beta-test of XP. I hope to get some feed back on the testing of
> the VRec and other features in the next few weeks.
>
> I'll try and keep this list posted if people are interested.
>
> Stuart
>
> At 10:10 03/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
> >On a related subject, I've read recently that L&H Voice Recognition
> >Technology has been incorporated into the upcoming Office XP. Food for
> >thought......
> >
> >St.John Skeates
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> Stuart Walker
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