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speech recognition

I was reading through the google news item IBM Donates Voice Code to Apache, which reminded me of a interesting thread in the Full disclosure mailing list.

The poster to the mailing list said that one of his users had contated him with a weird problem. As soon as the user had turned their machine on, brought up Word, the following message started "typing itself"

": 121-nighters and windows of confidence in your own problems in the matters when the company has no problems regarding .... [snip] "
Though it may seem that there is a glitch in Word, or some overflow in the clipboard memory, it is possible that the speech recognition software was the actual culprit. If the speech recognition software is turned on and there is a radio playing nearby, it will pick up by the software and transcribed on Word.

Original thread here and here .

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    • Posted bySteph
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    my experience with speech recognition software (about a year using it nearly full-time because of RSI) is that if the radio is playing in the background, the software will certainly not manage to transcribe what is being said. You might get some "parasite words" and the software will try to come up with a bunch of words which "go together" -- but there is no way it could be typing what is being said on the radio.

    Just my 2 paise :-)
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