Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tries to Write Perl Scripts
scrubadub1 · Comedy · 11 min · 2007 · YouTube title: Windows Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting
Why it's here
Cited as the classic, unintentionally hilarious example of early voice recognition failing, and of how dictation used to feel.
What it covers
A 2007 video of someone trying to write Perl scripts using Windows Vista speech recognition, with comically bad results. The footage shows the recognizer repeatedly mangling commands.