I nearly peed myself watching a Microsoft demonstration of its speech recognition software. First we had “all your base are belong to us”, then “a series of tubes”. Now the new geeky comedic phrase of choice is “Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.”
You’re going to laugh yourself silly when you find out exactly what the the Microsoft guy said to get that output. Bonus comedy includes when he gets snippy and says “I’m glad you’re enjoying this.” I know I sure did.
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That's hillarious!! My favorite part was the lady reporter's comments at the end.
Voice recognition right now is not advanced enough for main-stream use. Microsoft's solution is not the only product that suffers from poor voice recognition. IBM's ViaVoice is just as bad as anything else. All of these products require hours of training. You then need to speak at an unnaturally slow speed.