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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Microsoft's Unfortunate SR Demo Takes First Place on Google Video

For the past three days a 1 minute 39 second video clip of Microsoft's infamous speech recognition demo has the honors of being #1 on the Google Video Top 100 List. This is rather remarkable given the cacophony of often bizarre clips that it must compete with to earn the distinction. Please help me... is an unfortunate speech demo (alas they happen everyday... though not necessarily in financial analysts meetings) really as popular as Diet Coke & Mentos explosions, and lip syncing Chinese adolescents? Does anybody have any insight into the heuristics Google applies to generate the top 100 video list? One wonders if Google is simply having a little fun of their own at Microsoft's expense?

Watch the video.

by spkydog @ 6:04:00 AM   Bookmark and Share
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At 9:30 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

www.rocketsource.org --VoiceXml based opensource Application by Voxeo

 
At 9:31 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not knowing why not publish the Platform as Opensource ? (Business Strategy ?) instead of Application only. :)

 
At 6:27 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

What, Microsoft open source their platform? Are you nuts? We don't need more debris on the net than we already have! ;-)

 
At 8:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Its about Voxeo, Not MSFT.

 

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