"hair drive"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I think this brings up a new and different question -- did Siri make the
mistake?

More broadly, as voice driven devices become more common, and more people
use voice-to-text apps, we can expect more errors like "hair drive" for
"air drive".

DanG


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On May 19, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> >> mac book hair drive
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> > I hope you realize two of the quotes are talking about an "air drive"...
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> > DanG
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> No, I didn't realize that.  A bit closer to "hair drive", I have to
> admit--not quite all the way there, though.  So it's a combo of "air drive"
> + "hair dryer"?     A marketing breakthrough awaits!
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> LH
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