April 22, 20242 yr Apparently Microsoft is dropping the current speech recognition in W11, replacing that with a new software called Voice Access. Will this affect MCE? https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/644203-windows-speech-recognition-being-dropped-soon/?do=findComment&comment=5094027
April 23, 20242 yr Commercial Member On 4/22/2024 at 1:03 PM, threexgreen said: Apparently Microsoft is dropping the current speech recognition in W11, replacing that with a new software called Voice Access. Will this affect MCE? https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/644203-windows-speech-recognition-being-dropped-soon/?do=findComment&comment=5094027 Thanks for the heads-up. We're on same boat as Pilot2Atc. Right now MCE is working fine in Windows 11 and I don't see Microsoft deliberately breaking apps (they tend to ensure compatibility for as long as possible). Did a little research and it appears they are just moving away from the usual speech bar which gets all apps to share the same speech recognizer instance to a model where each app designed for "speech access" will accept speech natively. Probably because telemetry is showing them hardly anyone uses Cortana or even bothers to start the built-in speech recognizer. By the way, this is why MCE creates an exclusive instance of the speech engine, rather than the shared one. The latter would cause mayhem as any speech could be interpreted as a command to open "Microsoft Notepad", "open browser", Windows menu selection etc.. very disruptive. Also, MCE uses the "Command & Control" feature of the speech engine which performs very well, as opposed to "full dictation" which is known to be unreliable. These days, all PCs have tons of RAM installed, so it's easy to grant each application its own instance of the speech engine. They are pushing the new feature and now considering previous interface as legacy, which means, maybe beyond Window 12 (or later), some apps may need to adapt so they can drop the older interface. In any case, if we have to adapt 4 years down the line, so be it. . Edited April 23, 20242 yr by FS++ Gerald R https://www.multicrewxp.com
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