it's incredible - advice on how to talk to your machine ....
it's only a couple of years ago that the only response you got from trying to communicate with a pc was the neighbours knocking on the door to ask you to stop swearing so loudly at 3 in the morning 'cause it was frightening the dog
Not sure what the solution is, but I remember it was on Watchdog. People were complaining that it didn't recognise their voice. It seemed to be certain accents it did & dodn't recognise.