Windows Vista has voice recognition

Microsoft announced on August 9 that the voice recognition feature - Windows Speech Recognition will be integrated into its upcoming operating system version - Windows Vista.

Windows Speech Recognition will be able to recognize 8 different languages: English (English), English (US), Mandarin (traditional), Cantonese (simplified), Japanese, German, French and Spanish. This function allows users to order the computer to perform operations in the application.

Microsoft also plans to integrate Speech Server 2007 into Office Communications Server 2007; and announced that he will continue to support Speech Server 2004 customers until 2014.

Office Communications Server 2007 will be announced by Microsoft next year, and will provide APIs (application programming interfaces) for developers.