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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

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Vista Speech reco requires 1024 x 768?

- Rob Bushway

Criag Pringle, a Tablet PC MVP, is a blogging a very disturbing issue with Vista - Training the Speech recognition requres at least 1024 x 768.

I had to do a double take on his article this morning, but he is right. When you launch the speech reco wizard with anything smaller than 1024 x 768, you will get this error.

The speech reco team built the interface with a screen that cannot be resized or minimized, and uses a lot of white space in the screens. And it displays the above error when you try to run it with an LS800 running 800 x 600, or any other device with smaller resolution than 1024 x 768.

What is the Microsot Speech Reco team thinking? They just totally locked out a market that Microsoft is desperately trying to build and is one highly tailored to using speech recognition: the ultra mobile pc market.

Colin, who posts at the Random Elements blog, submitted a similar bug involving the the Windows Easy Transfer application - it requires at least a 800 x 600 resolution.

I guess the Speech Reco team didn't attend the Mobile Partners conference where Microsoft taught on building applications that are mobile friendly: screen real estate issues, etc.

UPDATE: I was not clear in this post and should have pointed out that it is the speech reco tutorial that requires 1024 x 768 and the not the training engine itself. I apologize for not being clear

Software | Vista

10/17/2006 7:42 AM MST

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:34:46 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

I think it's crazy that something as simple as a wizard runs over a fixed size background image thus limits your options. At least my bug is still "active" so there's always the possibility of something happening in future.

Colin Walker

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:48:38 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Bear in mind that this is just the tutorial that won't run. (Which is still very bad...don't get me wrong) You can still run Speech Recognition and even do the training on a smaller screen. I've done both on the Q1 at 800 x 480.

Kevin C. Tofel

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:49:19 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Brain... hurts... it's bad enough that the XP Tablet tutorials are largely useless on UMPCs thanks to the fixed and unresizeable (or scrollable!) windows. Now they have to repeat the mistake in Vista on a feature that's really useful for UMPCs.

Not good, MS. Especially since it looks like this is a sacrifice of functionality purely for the sake of (dubious, IMO) esthetics.

-- Steve

Anton P. Nym

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 10:20:45 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Yeah and Movie Maker and DVD Maker won't work either. How gay is that. Why do they require Aero!?? They worked fine in XP. The truth is, unless you have a new PC (and apparently one with a decent size screen), you're probably gonna miss out on alot of Vista's features.

Josh Einstein

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:08:42 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

It's not just the tutorials, many other independent software vendors require 1024x768. For example, software included in textbooks for education. Is it worth it for the LS900 to be 1024x 768? YES! Users can always switch back to a lower resolution if they find the print too small.

Exhile

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 8:10:20 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

WRT speech recognition it is just the tutorial that you cannot run. You can still enable speech and run through training without going through the tutorial. - CP

Craig Pringle

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