The ghost in the machine: Speech Recognition Ap has a life of its own

[food4thought]

(Sorry if this posts twice; I don't think my first post 'took.')

Here is an incident posted by by a Windows 7 user. I'm curious to know whether anyone else has experienced anything this strange . . .

from surfingtheapocalypse.com

KNOCK, KNOCK NEO…

by mercymann, Friday, February 19, 2010, 05:53

OK… this is kind of interesting and weird. I recently upgraded to Windows 7. I discovered the Speech Recognition program in the control panel and started playing around. It worked very well without training and includes a lot of controls. Copy, paste, select, correct, etc…

While I was practicing dictating into WORD, my two sons came stomping up the stairs in the usual “noise” around here. This noise caused the program to misspell a word. I responded with the command: “delete that”. To my surprise and amazement the machine typed: “The ego delete that”. I roared with laughter as I reached for the button to click “off” the Speech Recognition Application. Before I could the machine typed:

“40 over you say to my most of the demons more than in me of all the time of, the move from a what you think is a 3 to 9 edge behind the mask here that the lord of the age to come, stop was a”

More at link: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/forum/index.php?id=235430

 

[WyldBlackWolf]

lol thats definately tweaked food thanks for sharing this XD

 

[msdos622wasfun]

That's too funny! Stuff like that could be put on a Pink Floyd album played backwards.

 

[catilley1092]

That link led to some weird reading, after half of the first page, that was enough for me.

 

[Nibiru2012]

Perhaps the computer has become sentient; aware of it's existence. Like Mike in the Robert Heinlein novel: THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS

 

[Mychael]

Did you spill coffee on the keyboard like in "electric dreams"?

 

[MTM]

OK… this is kind of interesting and weird. I recently upgraded to Windows 7. I discovered the Speech Recognition program in the control panel and started playing around. It worked very well without training and includes a lot of controls. Copy, paste, select, correct, etc…

While I was practicing dictating into WORD, my two sons came stomping up the stairs in the usual “noise” around here. This noise caused the program to misspell a word. I responded with the command: “delete that”. To my surprise and amazement the machine typed: “The ego delete that”. I roared with laughter as I reached for the button to click “off” the Speech Recognition Application. Before I could the machine typed:

“40 over you say to my most of the demons more than in me of all the time of, the move from a what you think is a 3 to 9 edge behind the mask here that the lord of the age to come, stop was a”

Having a high quality noise canceling microphone is critical for speech recognition software to work optimally. READ "Getting Started with Windows Speech Recognition."

Marty Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
Microsoft MVP