My brother Mark sent me this hilarious video of a guy trying to use Windows Vista’s speech recognition to type some Perl code. (Parental caution – there are a few “cuss words” in this video.)
To be fair, writing computer code is obviously not the best use of text-to-speech technology – fighting the automatic capitalization features of the word processor isn’t really Windows’ fault – but this definitely demonstrates some of the challenges and limitations of the technology. We’re still a long way from being able to talk to our computers.