windows vista has a free software worth 11,542

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Read At A Tech Mag That A Sound Recognition Software Worth 11,542 Dragon Naturally Speaking And A Similar Software Is Free With Windows Vista

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What can I do with Speech Recognition?

You can use your voice to control your computer. You can say commands that the computer will respond to, and you can dictate text to the computer.
Before you get started using Windows Speech Recognition, you need to have a microphone hooked up to your computer. Once you've got the microphone set up, you can train your computer to better understand you by creating a voice Profile that your computer uses to recognize your voice and spoken commands.
After you've got your microphone and voice profile set up, you can use Speech Recognition to:

• Control your computer. Speech Recognition listens and responds to your spoken commands. You can use Speech Recognition to run programs and interact with Windows. For more information about the commands you can use with Speech Recognition,
• Dictate and edit text. You can use Speech Recognition to dictate words into word processing programs, such as WordPad, or to fill out online forms in Internet Explorer. You can also use Speech Recognition to edit text on your computer. For more information about dictating text

[sachin_kothari]

i think this was also possible in xp.
dont know for sure though.

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

but Vista version is much better n improved n also the Voice Recognition Programming API is now very easy to program and thus we'll see more and more apps supporting voice recognition in vista .