An interesting thought--at least to me
I bought myself a new laptop. Unlike my other computers, it has an integrated camera and microphone. While messing with it, I found the voice recognition software on it and thought, "Well, it's got this integrated microphone, maybe I'll try this." I spent the next couple hours going through the provided training which taught me how to use the software. I also spent some time training the computer to recognize my voice. This basically consisted of me reading phrases the computer prompted me with. Some I had to say a few times before the computer would recognize what I was saying. Others it got right away. When I finished with the training, the computer asked me if I would allow it to go through documents I had already produced as well as future documents I would produce so that it could train itself on how I write and thus be able to better "guess" what I am saying when it can't understand me completely. I thought, "Oh. That's a great idea." Unfortunately, it's a new laptop and doesn't have any of my documents on it (I'll fix that in a few minutes).
Excited to try the new capability, I opened up Word and dictated, "This is the first time I've dictated to a computer." The computer typed, "And this is the first time I take into my computer." Not bad, eh?
This morning on the way to work I was listening to David McConkie's conference talk. He said something that I had heard when he first gave the talk, but after hours of training my computer to recognize my voice and finally giving it permission to study things I had already written, it had a lot more meaning to me. He said, "Studying the scriptures trains us to hear the Lord's voice." I wonder how often the Lord says, "Just read the scriptures," and I hear, "Just leave the pressures."...
Excited to try the new capability, I opened up Word and dictated, "This is the first time I've dictated to a computer." The computer typed, "And this is the first time I take into my computer." Not bad, eh?
This morning on the way to work I was listening to David McConkie's conference talk. He said something that I had heard when he first gave the talk, but after hours of training my computer to recognize my voice and finally giving it permission to study things I had already written, it had a lot more meaning to me. He said, "Studying the scriptures trains us to hear the Lord's voice." I wonder how often the Lord says, "Just read the scriptures," and I hear, "Just leave the pressures."...
Comments
Enjoy the new laptop!
I'm proud of you for figuring all that out. Even if my laptop is capable of voice recogition I doubt I'd ever be able to figure it out!
1. I changed my home phone service to Vonage, and the first day with them, I got an email titled PMVonage Visual Voicemail from XXX-XXX-XXXX - New Voicemail Received, and the body of the email was a computer generated transcription. It also attatches a .wav file so you can listen to it if you want. Which is important if the person leaving your message isn't speaking english. The following is the "transcription" from what a friend who speaks spanish left for us:
Hello do not know Richard, this is XXXXX XXXXXXX and so I was kinda loud to see Mr. they got discuss like might like I said some another school. Know if you have a little. bye bye
2. I got a call from some one asking for Bishop Richards. I replied "I'm not a bishop. I'm Ward Clerk Richards. Can I help you with something." The guy figured he had the wrong number and politely hung up. I later checked the inbound number and realized that it was the optomotrist that's supposed to do my prerefractive surgery screening. He asked for SPECIALIST Richards, and I heard BISHOP. I don't know how that happend, but maybe your computer will think up all kinds of funny things for you to have said.