{"id":542,"date":"2012-11-05T08:32:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:40:30","slug":"speech-to-text-in-surface-is-built-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/05\/speech-to-text-in-surface-is-built-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech to Text in Surface is Built in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was complaining that there was nothing like Siri on my Surface. I was wrong. I happened to go into the classic control panel for something entirely different and found Speech Recognition . So I started exploring.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Screenshot 1\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screenshot-1.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 1\" width=\"550\" height=\"435\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I selected Start Speech Recognition and was prompted to select a microphone type. I didn\u2019t know for sure so selected the bottom choice for external and Windows did the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Screenshot 2\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screenshot-2.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2\" width=\"550\" height=\"511\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After reading the phrase, I was guided to a rather long tutorial. The graphics shown were a little odd as they were obviously for the x86 version of Windows 8 since they were showing WordPad. However, it was worth believing that Speech Recognition would work on Surface.<\/p>\n<p>After going through the tutorial, I said \u201cStart Listening\u201d and then \u201cOpen Word\u201d. Word 2013 RT opened. I started dictating. While slower than Siri and far less accurate, the words I spoke appeared in the document. Eureka. Maybe training will improve this. I hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I tried a voice command from the Start Screen, \u201cOpen Mail\u201d. Here\u2019s what happened:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Screenshot 3\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screenshot-3.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 3\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While in one of my mail account, I decided to say \u201cCompose\u201d. A new window opened where I could DICTATE an email. I\u2019ve blocked out my email address, but here is the screen shot:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; margin: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Screenshot 4\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screenshot-4.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 4\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m off to explore more, but clearly I\u2019m on to something here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I was complaining that there was nothing like Siri on my Surface. I was wrong. I happened to go into the classic control panel for something entirely different and found Speech Recognition . So I started exploring. I selected Start Speech Recognition and was prompted to select a microphone type. 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The graphics shown were a little odd as they were obviously for the x86 version&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/category\/windows-8\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Windows 8<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"barbbowman","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barbbowman\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-8K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}