speech current languages

Hi all A question for anyone who has installed Vista latest build. The Speech recgonition technology , what languages is currently supported with this build. I am interrested in doing some testing but only if Spanish is currently supported. Anyone who has it installed please let me know. Thanks

Spanish is not currently supported, probably not until BETA or a future build. Right now, the only languages supported are German and Japanese and English of course. :) -- -- Andre Windows Connect | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Sean Thompson" wrote in message

Hi all A question for anyone who has installed Vista latest build. The Speech recgonition technology , what languages is currently supported with this build. I am interrested in doing some testing but only if Spanish is currently supported. Anyone who has it installed please let me know. Thanks

Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

Spanish is not currently supported, probably not until BETA or a future build. Right now, the only languages supported are German and Japanese and English of course. :)

I would guess that if Spanish SR were to be supported then it would already appear since it is not UI-dependent. Note, MS does not provide German SR either.
My guess is that Microsoft will still leave Spanish SR to third-parties since the variance in spoken dialects is fairly extreme. Microsoft's English SR is really only targetted on a range of spoken US English.

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" schrieb im Newsbeitrag

Spanish is not currently supported, probably not until BETA or a future build. Right now, the only languages supported are German and Japanese and English of course. :)

German speech recognition is supported? That's good news to me. :-) Do you by any chance know, who developed this speech-recognition engine?

A pitty Thanks for you assistance on this.
Just our of curiosity how does microsoft come up with these langauges during beta stages? if you take a look at http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775272.html for the most widely spoken langauges in the world the top 4 are Chinese, English, Hindustani and Spanish. German and Japanese are not in the top 10. Do the German and Japanese developers provide better feed back to Microsoft or whats the story here.
Any ideas?
Thanks again Sean
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Spanish is not currently supported, probably not until BETA or a future build. Right now, the only languages supported are German and Japanese and English of course. :) -- -- Andre Windows Connect | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Sean Thompson" wrote in message Hi all A question for anyone who has installed Vista latest build. The Speech recgonition technology , what languages is currently supported with this build. I am interrested in doing some testing but only if Spanish is currently supported. Anyone who has it installed please let me know. Thanks

Actually I should have been more specific, I meant the supported languages in the entire OS right now are German, Japanese and English. -- -- Andre Windows Connect | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote: Spanish is not currently supported, probably not until BETA or a future build. Right now, the only languages supported are German and Japanese and English of course. :)
I would guess that if Spanish SR were to be supported then it would already appear since it is not UI-dependent. Note, MS does not provide German SR either.
My guess is that Microsoft will still leave Spanish SR to third-parties since the variance in spoken dialects is fairly extreme. Microsoft's English SR is really only targetted on a range of spoken US English.

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"Sean Thompson" wrote in message

Hi all A question for anyone who has installed Vista latest build. The Speech recgonition technology , what languages is currently supported with this build. I am interrested in doing some testing but only if Spanish is currently supported. Anyone who has it installed please let me know. Thanks

Sean Thompson wrote:

A pitty Thanks for you assistance on this.
Just our of curiosity how does microsoft come up with these langauges during beta stages? if you take a look at http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775272.html for the most widely spoken langauges in the world the top 4 are Chinese, English, Hindustani and Spanish. German and Japanese are not in the top 10. Do the German and Japanese developers provide better feed back to Microsoft or whats the story here.

German and Japanese are pilot languages for Microsoft product localization and have been for a very long time. You should read up on common practices in software localization and internationalization. Microsoft Press has published a couple of quite sturdy titles on the subject, the first by Nadine Kano appeared around 1995.
German language reveals issues to do with high-ASCII characters, and also space issues since UI strings translated into German take up about 50% more space than English strings (as a rule of thumb). So the localized German build reveals several things which may have to be fixed in the core product.
Japanese language builds reveal similar issues: East Asian character sets and vertical writing being a couple of cases in point.
In addition, the German and Japanese *markets* are extremely important.
There are smaller pilots for other prototypical language scripts, but the relative market-sizes for these usually dictate smaller or later betas.

Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

Actually I should have been more specific, I meant the supported languages in the entire OS right now are German, Japanese and English.

That's UI language, to be really specific. There are many language parameters in the OS.