Windows Speech Recognition

Do you know that you can make new post to your blog, write a word document or update your Live messenger by using not your keyboard, but by speech? Yeap, speech my friends. If you’re using Xp and above, then you’re lucky. Windows is equipped with an application called Windows Speech Recognition (WRS). All you have to do is plug in a microphone into your computer, click

Start > All Programs > Accessories > Ease of  Access > Windows Speech Recognition

to enable this feature. Set up instructions is simple. Tutorial and training is given to new user in how to use WRS properly. I highly suggest you to perform all training modules, in order to Vista to recognize and learn your voice as your own voice. As you use it, Windows Speech will learn new words every time you speak into your microphone.

Windows Vista Speech Recognition

Except for memorizing commands, I have no problem to use Windows Speech as an additional input tool for my Office Words. The problem is, if I speak at normal pace, WRS can’t catch up with any of words I have said. WRS currently supports English (US and British), Spanish, German, French, Japanese and Chinese.      

ps: ops! sorry for wrong intro video ^_^

mr anon

Kokokaina

Today as I surfed YouTube, I noticed someone with familiar face on YouTube Music Spotlight. Hey, she’s KokoKaina! Congrats girl ,you’re on YouTube front-page!To be on YouTube Spotlight all of your videos got to be really highly-rated and she deserved it.


I first knew about KokoKaina (aka Zee Avi) from YouTube after a friend of mine introduced me to her videos. One that caught my ears was her “No Christmas for Me”.

KokoKaina - No Christmas for Me

I stunned when I first listened to this song, I thought “Is this for real? video is badly edited but her voice is too professional”. I asked my friend - “Are you sure this no lip-sync?”,”big music company promotional video?” – he convinced me with big NO, “That is her real voice. I followed her gigs everywhere”. From that moment, I became her fan.

Why would a pro like her post a great song with a great voice on YouTube? Why don’t she walk all way out into all those reality programs? I think the answer is – why should you waste your time, surround by all those contestants who are trying to show off with fake cuteness and giggles (or gedik in bahasa) – when you can use that time to promote and improve yourself to real audience, not to some crazy AF fans. If you are really good, then people out there will accept you and you will make millions $$ (not million).

Actually in our country, there are a lot of persons with good voice, able to write and sing own songs. Yuna, Che’Nell, Carburetor Dung (?). They highly believe in their potential as true performer. These gifted persons are fully aware – if they put themselves in those stupid competitions, they will be defeated. Not because lack of anything, but merely because they are not minah gedik and mat jambu enough to get few cheap votes.

minah gedik – female who thinks she acts stupid, when actually she is stupid.
mat jambu – male who doesn’t want to be stupid, but he doesn’t know what stupid is.

mr anon

Malaysiakini

If you’re looking for independence, fairness and neutrality in Malaysia news media, then don’t look anywhere else – except Malaysiakini. Uncut interviews, unedited press release, and real-time news update. Published in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, Malaysiakini can only be viewed from their website [malaysiakini.com]. The downside of this vendor – different than the other online local news – is that you have to subscribe first to view the whole news. If you don’t subscribe, then all you get is few lines summary for each reports.

Additionally, they also have their own YouTube channel – free [Malaysiakini.tv], which they will update regularly every 2 or 3 hours.  

Disclaimer: This is not an advertisement. There is no relation/connection whatsoever between mr anon and Malaysiakini. Mr anon strongly support freedom of information.

mr anon