GUI gets in the way (Score 1)

XP Pro (W/AT&T voices, Office language Bar W/Word, firefox W/Foxy Voice) and OSX are a bit more polished. But I had a similar voice recognition/TTS setup in 1993. And what I concluded was that it is far simpler to interact physically (double click) with a GUI than to tell the computer to double click. What is needed is a different type of interface for speech to take off mainstream. However it is sad that Windows will not read dialog boxes. And that's a pretty obvious useful feature that the Mac has enjoyed since system 7 or 8! Windows is the norm with the largest desktop penetration. And the norm blows in this case. Just like the m-i-c-r-o-s-oft s-a-m voice. There were better TTS voices available to System 6.0.8! Ouch! This is one of the few areas that the Mac people truly and justly get to laugh at the PC.