This is something where you might want to talk with you Mom about the options. I won’t show you every single step of the configuration - there are a lot of ’em! - but you will want to notice that the system can support a variety of different microphones, as you can see here:įrom a privacy perspective, just one more thing I want to highlight in the setup: Easiest way is to search for speech recognition in the Charms search:Ĭhoose “Start speech recognition” to make life easy, and it’ll start the configuration wizard:
To start, you need to enable speech recognition on Win8. Still the basics are still there and if your Mom practices for a bit, she’ll find it helps her use her system more easily. There are a couple of different ways you can set up your Mom with speech recognition on Windows 8 too, though so far, it’s not actually the “Cortana” system as featured on Windows Phone and, soon, Windows 10. Voice recognition has really blossomed over the last few years as the technology has improved, and both Mac and Windows systems now have surprisingly sophisticated speech recognition built in and ready to go once you enable it!
