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fun with dictating

Stephanie, who is back to blogging now that she’s installed a speech recognition program, talks about one fun feature of the software: speech misrecognition.
Indeed, the link to this anthology of speech recognition goofs is really fun material!

The intended text: “We’ll need at least one “extrovert per group.” NatSpeak came out with, “We’ll’ need at least one extra virgin per group.”

Just in case we run out of virgins?

Anyway, I spoke this:
    Hello Shannon
The software put this on the screen:
    Hello bitch

AI at work, or…

I was describing how you can use your voice as “an alternative input device” and NatSpeak wrote “an obscenity input device.”

That explains it all!

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