Windows 8 News

Windows 8 is coming back old school with text to speech engines, speech recognition, voice recognition, and transcribing voice to text with conceptual designs within Windows 8 prototypes. Employees within Microsoft have been working hard at keeping the prototypes from leaking out to the public, cross your fingers that we’ll see some results soon.

Windows 8 will enhance interaction between computers and humans to a standard higher then we’ve seen in the past. Hopefully no embodied agents such as Microsoft Office’s “clippy” will ruin the experience, but Google Voice’s transcribing voicemail shows the need of these conversions from spoken-language into text archiving.

Windows 8 brings English first to the table,  but languages may develop further quite quickly if English is proven successful. Windows 8 News asks Will this bring a whole new social dimension and be perceived by the average computer user in a positive light? Can Windows 8 provide a new experience, bring awareness to the actual requirements of computer equipment in almost everything we do during the day?

Will Microsoft incorporate Agents or Avatars into Windows 8 as they have done with the Xbox? Microsoft proved that people while playing video games will blabbing away at the “TV”, is it really hard to believe this won’t soon be the computer? Microsoft has shown this interest for many many years, will Windows 8 finally be the successful release of all this hard work? A lot of us here at Windows 8 News think the timing would be perfect!