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Windows Vista's built-in speech recognition tools are
seriously powerful and convenient, as Adam demonstrated by controlling
his PC with his voice, but, as he noted, the process for adding
seriously helpful macros to the "technical
preview" macro tool isn't quite apparent. Luckily, Rob Chambers of
Microsoft's speech division has posted a guide to editing, saving, and
enabling speech macros in Vista. Good thing, too, because his own blog has
lots of geekily awesome macros available for free copying: a Windows
Media Player controller that lets you say something as casual as "Play
something by Led Zeppelin"; a simple "Send
email to ..." Outlook macro; and many more. Got some of your own
favorite macros? Post 'em up in the comments. Thanks, Al!

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