In the Windows Vista/Windows 7 operating system Voice recognition is embedded and can be reached through the Ease of Access centre. Vista voice recognition offers a real opportunity to explore how the technology works and for many users may be a suitable solution. It comes with a bulit in video tutrorial that is very comprehensive. The recogntion is pretty accurate and anyone thinking of using voice recogntion who has Vista should start here to get a feel for what is involved.

• Getting started with Vista voice recognition (Source: Microsoft)
• Vista voice recognition How-tos
• Using Vista voice recognition (Source: LifeHack)
• How to set up Vista voice recognition
• How to use and configure Vista voice recognition (Source: SpeakComputers.com)

• Voice recognition on Windows 7

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Using Windows voice recognition - Practical demos

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Spracherkennung mit Vista (speech recognition with Vista)

Recently Microsoft have released a test version of a macro creator for Vista voice recognition.. For example you could set up a macro "Home Address" which once created would put your home address in when ever you said it. Details from Windows Speech Recognition Macros

Creating Windows 7 voice recognition macros . . .