Thursday, May 30, 2013

Why I Love CART and Captioning and Deplore Speech Recognition Software which is supposedly going to make the former obsolete.



Speech recognition "fun."

Phone company customer service recording:  If you are calling about your phone service, say "Phone."

Me: Phone.

Pccsr: I'm sorry. I didn't get that.

Me: Phone. Phone.

Pccsr: I'm sorry I didn't get that.

Me: PHONE PHONE PHONE PHONE PHONE PHONE.

Pccsr: I'm sorry I still didn't get that. Please try your call again later.

Me: [expletive deleted while family is helpfully falling about in background]

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