voice control

Hi I've been playing with Cortana today. Pretty neat, I set up a playlist with 175 pieces of music, a mixture of styles from Pop, Rock, Folk, and Broadway, with everyone from Barbara Streisand to Steeleye Span, Bruce Springsteen, and Joan Baez. Now all I have to do is say "Hey Cortana play my...

In Windows 7 speech recognition dictionary if I just keep hitting record and saying the word over and over does that improve recognition of that word?

Which has the best Speech Recognition Windows 7, Windows 8,or Dragon?

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Hey people. I've been using windows speech recognition software since it was included in Windows Vista and now windows 7. To be completely honest I didn't really think that a free voice recognition system was gonna be that good because I've used many in the past and they weren't very accurate...

do any of you have a good list of Voice control comands. Thanks

The speech recognition in Win 7 is awesome I wonder if there is a way to use custom voice commands I create a custom voice command and link it to an .exe file or something like that If I say NFS, It must launch my game :p Like Sensiva(If you don't know it, try googling) :cool:

I love the speech recognition. It actually works, is useful, and is fun. But I would like to know if there is a way to customize the voice commands, such as addressing the computer as a name to activate it, instead of "Start listening" (nerdy, I know, but AWESOME). Or for further customization...

Is it possible to create custom commands for the speech recognition engine? For instance, can I create a command that will open my browser to a specific site or type my name (while not in "dictation" mode)?