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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Mince on November 27, 2009, 03:25:45 PM

Title: Speech Recognition
Post by: Mince on November 27, 2009, 03:25:45 PM: I recorded a few things onto my new dictaphone and had the Dragon "Naturally Speaking" speech recognition software turn it into text. Okay, I might not have been completely clear all the time, but I certainly did not say: "Hall's 40 Hoyas Everything the laurels of stealing a team leader and hopalong's match at can tell you we are out of the four". Bloody computers.
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on November 27, 2009, 04:14:00 PM: Quote from: Mince on November 27, 2009, 03:25:45 PM
I recorded a few things onto my new dictaphone and had the Dragon "Naturally Speaking" speech recognition software turn it into text. Okay, I might not have been completely clear all the time, but I certainly did not say: "Hall's 40 Hoyas Everything the laurels of stealing a team leader and hopalong's match at can tell you we are out of the four". Bloody computers.

It was 14 Hoyas, wasn't it?
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: The Peepmaster on November 27, 2009, 04:41:21 PM: Computers are never very good handling the accents of canned plankton-munchers.
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Diane CBPFC on November 27, 2009, 04:55:46 PM: Even the simple phone systems that want a yes or a no don't work - "Of course you stupid twat" gets you nowhere but a patronising, "sorry, our fault I didn't understand you. Please say yes or no.
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Mince on November 27, 2009, 05:01:03 PM: I think "hopalong" was the last straw. I removed the software.
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: The Peepmaster on November 27, 2009, 05:11:41 PM: Quote from: Diane CBPFC on November 27, 2009, 04:55:46 PM

"Of course you stupid twat" gets you nowhere.

Did Mince really phone you up?
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Tom on November 27, 2009, 07:31:27 PM: I've got a text recognition voice thingee on my mobile phone... it's called Ellen for some reason. It reads text the same way as it converted your speech to text, Mince.
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on November 27, 2009, 07:56:54 PM: Quote from: Tom on November 27, 2009, 07:31:27 PM
I've got a text recognition voice thingee on my mobile phone... it's called Ellen for some reason. It reads text the same way as it converted your speech to text, Mince.

Or Ellen Back, to use her full name.
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Tom on November 27, 2009, 07:58:44 PM: I thought it was Ellen Earth, Tarks.
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Roger Kettle on November 27, 2009, 08:13:08 PM: As you all know, I have refused to embrace modern technology. In fact, I refuse to shake it by the hand or peck it on the cheek. From time to time, by necessity---as on this site---I will briefly caress its bottom but that's as far as it goes.
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: The Peepmaster on November 27, 2009, 08:20:33 PM: I've been looking at the sophistication of Mince's telephone system.

(http://www.nigelsutherland.co.uk/tin-can-string.jpg)
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Roger Kettle on November 27, 2009, 08:29:11 PM: What tuna does it play when it rings?
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: The Peepmaster on November 27, 2009, 08:47:07 PM: Quote from: Roger Kettle on November 27, 2009, 08:29:11 PM
What tuna does it play when it rings?

The Can-Can, I think. (It's old-fashioned.)
Title: Re: Speech Recognition
Post by: Vulture on November 28, 2009, 08:11:25 AM: Quote from: Roger Kettle on November 27, 2009, 08:29:11 PM
What tuna does it play when it rings?

The Can-Can, I think. (It's old-fashioned.)

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