Chapter 8. Setting Up Voice Commands

  • Get started with speech recognition

  • Turn on speech recognition

  • Use Media Center with speech recognition

IF THE THOUGHT of keeping track of one more remote control sends you over the edge or you are worried about little hands grabbing mice or keyboards, you should consider using speech recognition with your Windows Media Center home entertainment system. Speech or voice recognition lets you speak commands instead of typing text or clicking commands.

The technology works like this: You spend a little bit of time training your Media Center PC to understand your speech patterns, and the computer takes the grammatical context and frequency of the words you use and places that information in memory. When you begin speaking ...

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