The only Speech Recognition Joke in the World?
Posted by: Steve Duke @ 25/03/2010 9:42:32 AM
Reading my esteemed colleague Ken’s blog that mentions in-car speech recognition, I was reminded of the only ‘joke’ I know about Speech Recognition. It may be the only one in existence, however – a bit like the question of whether life exist anywhere else in the universe – I find it hard to believe there aren’t others.
Anyhow I digress … the joke goes like this (with names changed, not so much to protect the innocent as to prevent a libel action). A caller rings into the Hugh Geego show, a ‘shock jock’ on a local radio station, while they were doing a segment on new technology.
Caller: I just thought I would let you know about some really neat technology in a new car I just bought.
Hugh: OK I heard they had some pretty smart stuff these days.
Caller: Well one of the main reasons I bought it was it has this amazing ‘voice activated speech recognition’ thingy where you can just tell the car what to do.
Hugh: Sounds good – give me some examples.
Caller: So I was driving to work this morning and thought I would try it out, so I said “open the sun roof” and sure enough it opened. Then I said “set climate control to 20 degrees” and it turned the air-con on for me.
Hugh: That’s amazing
Caller: There’s more; I said “turn radio on” and it asked me back “what do you want to listen to”. So I said “classical music” and it put on Classic FM. Then I tried “heavy rock” and it put on Triple M. A moment after that, some fool came speeding around the corner and crossed over onto my side of the road. As I nearly hit him, I shouted out “stupid mindless bloody idiot”, and guess what?
Hugh: What?
Caller: It put on your show!
At which point Hugh abruptly terminated the call.
If anyone else has a joke about Speech Recognition please post it here – I would love to know.
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