Google voice recognition goofs amazingly

[Geoffrey Steven Nathan]

I normally don't report on this kind of thing, but I have to share this with ADS.


I was looking for some of the words in 'In Flanders Fields' and tried to get my iPhone to look for


'Take up the battle with the foe'.


Since I have fat fingers I've been more and more asking Siri or the Google voice recognition system to do voice input. I may have been cured of that option, however, because Google took the above phrase and returned:


Opera baffle with the faux


Several minutes later my wife and I were able to breathe again...

Geoffrey S. Nathan
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and Professor, Linguistics Program
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