This all sounds to me like someone doesn't really know what they are talking about:
1) There IS a keyword - it's called Start Listening. Input is muted until you say Start listening, this is when Speech Recognition is even loaded. I personally don't leave it running when I am not using it. And I doubt anyone will either.
2) UAC (User Account Control) prevents you from just deleting things, or emptying the recycle bin. Especially with Voice command. And I have tried many commands like "Delete C" or "Format C" and trust me, that doesnt work. And MS wouldnt be that stupid.
3) Once you train SR to your voice, it would be almost impossible for any "Recorded voice" on any website or sound clip to "TAKE OVER" your computer. Simply because IT WONT BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND the recorded voice. Once you train it to your voice, it will only be able to interpret your voice, No one else.
4) Voice Command technology of ANY Type is fairly new, So it won't be great right now, but as technology gets better, pretty soon we will be able to tell our computers to do our taxes, or order pizza, and it will be able to dam near do it without second guessing.
5) Even if you ignore all the obvious safety features already built into Vista, and lets say hypothetically you got some kind of exploit that when you goto a website, one, it installs a script that runs Voice Recognition, then it tricks VR to turn itself on and "Start listening", then it figures out how to bypass your trained voice, and play a sound clip that will delete all your system files, or mess up your boot file information, then it restarts your computer leaving you with a "NO OS FOUND" prompt.
Obviously all that is far fetched. Because of the Several layers of security that will prevent ANY if not all of those steps to fail, and even if Someone figures out how to do it, There is always the Boot fix option that will fix any booting issue when you boot from the Vista Install CD, then when you get back to windows, if anything is deleted, you can just do a system restore to get back all deleted files.
COME ONE PEOPLE THINK!!!!
Stop listening to Microsoft Bashers, Mac Thumpers, Or just plain out HATERS!!!
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This all sounds to me like someone doesn't really know what they are talking about:
1) There IS a keyword - it's called Start Listening. Input is muted until you say Start listening, this is when Speech Recognition is even loaded. I personally don't leave it running when I am not using it. And I doubt anyone will either.
2) UAC (User Account Control) prevents you from just deleting things, or emptying the recycle bin. Especially with Voice command. And I have tried many commands like "Delete C" or "Format C" and trust me, that doesnt work. And MS wouldnt be that stupid.
3) Once you train SR to your voice, it would be almost impossible for any "Recorded voice" on any website or sound clip to "TAKE OVER" your computer. Simply because IT WONT BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND the recorded voice. Once you train it to your voice, it will only be able to interpret your voice, No one else.
4) Voice Command technology of ANY Type is fairly new, So it won't be great right now, but as technology gets better, pretty soon we will be able to tell our computers to do our taxes, or order pizza, and it will be able to dam near do it without second guessing.
5) Even if you ignore all the obvious safety features already built into Vista, and lets say hypothetically you got some kind of exploit that when you goto a website, one, it installs a script that runs Voice Recognition, then it tricks VR to turn itself on and "Start listening", then it figures out how to bypass your trained voice, and play a sound clip that will delete all your system files, or mess up your boot file information, then it restarts your computer leaving you with a "NO OS FOUND" prompt.
Obviously all that is far fetched. Because of the Several layers of security that will prevent ANY if not all of those steps to fail, and even if Someone figures out how to do it, There is always the Boot fix option that will fix any booting issue when you boot from the Vista Install CD, then when you get back to windows, if anything is deleted, you can just do a system restore to get back all deleted files.
COME ONE PEOPLE THINK!!!!
Stop listening to Microsoft Bashers, Mac Thumpers, Or just plain out HATERS!!!