Voice recognition software is evil

[Blue Ginger]

Had someone share this one my Facebook page and thought that it would make a few people laugh here too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU

Voice recognition software can be evil if you have an accent or a surname like mine (R and F too close together for most programs to pick up when spelling it out).

[mathnerd]

I've lived in a lot of different places in the US and my accent is a mosh of all of those places. Voice recognition software hates me.

[sstabeler]

I've had some fairly impressive literature out of voice recognition. Which would be nice, except I was trying to get it to open my browser.

[morgana]

Okay, I just bought myself Dragon software for my birthday, and ya'll are scaring me . . .

[sstabeler]

In all honesty, it depends on how much you train it. You probably should set aside a LONG time to train Dragon to recognise your voice. ( single-user voice recognition usually eventually gets the hang of even the thickest accent. However, when it has to recognise a variety of dialects, accents and languages? good luck. The only reason Apple's Siri works is because it's a defined list of commands, so it can go for the closest it can find.)

[KellyHabersham]

I'd say whatever voice recognition software Rosetta Stone uses is definitely evil........I'm taking an online German class, lessons are set up with Rosetta Stone, and at times I have to talk really loud and slow for it to recognize my speech. (other times, the software seems to want you to talk really fast)