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Old December 14th 03, 12:25 AM
Jonathan Sachs
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Default Speech recognition, a funny

Having carpal tunnel syndrome, I rely heavily on speech recognition
software both for my professional work and for composing the
descriptions of items that I sell on eBay.

The difficulty that speech recognition software has with homonymns
(and with near-homonymic phrases like "See the conquering hero comes"
= "Seethe a canker and here oh comes") is legendary. After the
umpty-third time I verbally correct something like "Concerto four to
piano's and Orchestra" for the umpty-third time, I am, as Queen
Victoria said, not amused.

But yesterday the program succeeded in making me laugh when it
interpreted "An excellent reading copy or a near fine collectible
copy" as "An excellent breeding copy..."

If I actually had a few of those, I'd be in fat city!

My mail address is jsachs177 at earthlink dot net.
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