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Delights of transcription programs | foam/phone

Phil Hand — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:51:00 +0000

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Poster: Phil Hand
Post title: foam/phone

I was doing a consumer survey on shampoo, and the damn thing would not learn that I was saying "foam" instead of the higher-frequency "phone". It kept turning out oddly well-formed sentences like: I like my shampoo to phone up while I'm washing my hair.

Delights of transcription programs | Gummikuh??

Nicole Schnell — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:26:00 +0000

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Post title: Gummikuh??

[quote]Daniel Meier wrote:
Me: Außenminister Gromyko
Dragon: Außenminister Gummikuh

[/quote]

Daniel, you made my day. This is gorgeous. :-) :-) :-)

Delights of transcription programs | Windows speech recognition software

Triston Goodwin — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:28:00 +0000

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Poster: Triston Goodwin
Post title: Windows speech recognition software

I found an old copy of Dragon, but it wouldn't work on my computer, so I've been playing with the free software that comes in windows 7. I actually kind of like it for translation and my hands don't hurt after long hours like they used to.

I love it when it tries to transcribe what my wife says in her thick Argentine accent. She got a little frustrated and said "you stupid machine" and it wrote, "you need a new jean." She took that as a sign to go shopping, so I guess she doesn't want to kill it anymore.

Delights of transcription programs | Yes, Dragon does some funny things sometimes

Daniel Meier — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:41:00 +0000

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Post title: Yes, Dragon does some funny things sometimes

In an IT-related text
Me: Virtualisierungsserver
Dragon: Arisierungsserver
You can imagine I hastened to correct that.

In a transcription project about multilateral political relations during the cold war:
Me: Außenminister Gromyko
Dragon: Außenminister Gummikuh
In this case I was tempted to leave the text as Dragon suggested, but unfortunately my sense of responsibility would not let me do that.

Delights of transcription programs | Dragon

Anton Konashenok — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:34:00 +0000

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Post title: Dragon

An older version of Dragon once transcribed an organisation name, Kazakhstan Applied Ecology Agency, as "cats don't apply to college agency".

Delights of transcription programs

David Wright — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:36:00 +0000

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Poster: David Wright

I'm generally very happy with Dragon, but there are occasions when the result is just way out.

Today: venous thromboembolism came out as "vagueness trombone embolism"

I'm sure anyone using Dragon will have their own examples - please reveal!