Microsoft released their Visual Search beta on Bing this morning. It’s pretty cool, particularly if you are a visual person. I played around with some of the categories they had listed to show off the application. One category, dog breeds, really shows how this software shines, compared to doing searches on Google. I’ve done this search before when trying to show what certain breeds of dogs look like, for my kids. Visual search is cool. Click on dog breeds and up come boxes with the individual dogs in them, just like if you pulled open a big file drawer and could see all the files. Go and try it.
What better way to start a blog about using speech recognition with Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking than to use it to blog about how easy it was to install, or not easy to install, and then use, as the case may be. Dragon NaturallySpeaking, if you aren’t familiar with it, is a speech-driven dictation package, which allows a user to dictate letters, documents, emails, or do things on the web, and have it typed for you. That is pretty cool.
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