Tuesday, August 8, 2006 |
01:20 - Eat Up Martha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y_Jp6PxsSQ
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"Now, Microsoft is not happy we showed you that video; and it wants you to know they're blaming ambient noise for the failure. But as you can hear, it was quiet up until it didn't work and everyone started laughing. Live television's rough."
You know, voice recognition is a technology problem that has been solved already, numerous times over. Wheels are round, guys: that one's free. Thank me later.
(Now, I can understand how ambient noise might cause problems like this, and how it could ruin a live presentation in front of a crowd when noise conditions are different from what could have been reproduced in rehearsal. But, yeah, it was quiet. C'mon...)
Via JMH.
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