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Windows Whistler/XP and Terminal Server. Does the microphone work? maybe speech to text?

New MessageWindows Whistler/XP and Terminal Server. Does the microphone work? maybe speech to text? (modified 0 times) drof
hey you guys who're running Terminal Server on Windows Whister XP whatever, someone said it's supposed to forward sound. Does it forward the mic input on the epods? If it does then it'd be cool to install something like Dragon Speaking Naturally on it and use voice commands 'n stuff. Anybody try it and see if t works?
03-08-2001 18:18:39

New MessageRE:Windows Whistler/XP and Terminal Server. Does the microphone work? maybe speech to text? (modified 0 times) MISMan
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No need to install Dragon Speaking, the new Office XP has voice recognition and dictation.
03-12-2001 19:53:12

New MessageRE:Windows Whistler/XP and Terminal Server. Does the microphone work? maybe speech to text? (modified 0 times) zhensel
Assuming that the XP terminal client for CE will even pass through audio, that would be a tough thing to work out. There would be some serious latency issues, but I suppose it might work. If it does, we should really e-mail Microsoft or something because I'd bet they'd love to use that as a demo. Just imagine corporate folks taking their iPaq down to lunch and dictating their ideas to a XP machine in their office while pouring over a hunk of meat loaf - when they get back they have a neatly bulleted list of things to do. Probably not my cup of tea, but it would go over great with the same people that plunk down three grand for a Titanium Powerbook only to realize that it is incompatible with their Microsoft-based office - of course, they get to impress people in business-class with widescreen DVD playback so who cares right?

More practically, it'll be interesting to see how Microsoft's voice recognition compares to Dragon, IBM Via Voice, etc. Given their 10 billion $/year r&d budget or whatever they throw at their thinktanks nowadays it ought to read my mind and write that on the screen - scratch that, I wouldn't want fellow students seeing my thoughts on the screen :)

03-12-2001 20:45:40

New MessageRE:Windows Whistler/XP and Terminal Server. Does the microphone work? maybe speech to text? (modified 0 times) wallyworld
My Titanium PowerBook and all of our other Macs are totally compatible with our PC-based colleagues. We regularly read their files and they read ours. The only thing missing is Access, which doesn't matter in our office as we use FileMaker Pro. We can share windows disks on our macs and they can see ours and we can do screen sharing with Timbuktu. Not bad for not being compatible.

You want to hear another good one?

I just installed W2k server on Virtual PC and will see if terminal services works. This could be very cool for us mac users.

03-13-2001 12:31:34

New MessageRE:Windows Whistler/XP and Terminal Server. Does the microphone work? maybe speech to text? (modified 0 times) zhensel
Yeah yeah, someone has to come and prove me wrong :)

Of course, it's still a pain in the ass for the techs who learn their trade via MSCE and whatnot and then wind up charged with messing with sprockets and whatnot. Though I'd argue that anyone who gets their job based on an MSCE deserves the trouble. You all must have quite the IT staff, because I've worked in a mixed OS company (unix/windows/macOS) and a mixed OS school (ironically enough in Kansas City, the bane of school desegregation efforts) and compatability certainly is a problem. I've always been really impressed by Virtual PC though. It's obviously slow (at least on a g3-400 w/ an ungodly amount of RAM), but just as stable as Windows (which doesn't say much) and runs most software. I'm not anti-mac (actually spend a good deal of time working on a cube w/ cinema view screen) and it seems you have a well-integrated office there. Just pointing out that the type of people impressed by the previously mentioned epods demo would most likely be the same PHBs who fawn over the TiBook and force their IT staff to integrate with an established network.

Back on topic, does anyone know yet if the XP Term. client will pass audio at all? In which direction? The mic on the epods seems decent enough (using the MS voice recorder app), so it would have some cool uses.

03-13-2001 16:10:46

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