[Ads-l] Are we saying what we think we are saying

[Tom Zurinskas]

A friend of mine was using speech to text years ago.  He said the system was not good.  It kept writing "bed" when he said "bad".  I listened and had to tell him he WAS saying "bed".  ~~Fer sher.~~

Tom Zurinskas,  Originally from SW Conn 20 yrs,  college NE Tenn 3,  work SE NJ  33,  resides SE Florida 18...  truespel.com






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Subject: Re: Are we saying what we think we are saying

My father's first attempt with Dragon software, over a decade ago I would guess, was to recite Wordsworth's _Daffodils_. We were particularly enchanted with the line "a homophobic onion friend".

BTW

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Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh

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Prifysgol Abertawe | Swansea University

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On 11 Jul 2020, 17:43 +0100, Herbert F. Stahlke <hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM>, wrote:
> Or get better text to speech software.
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> On July 11, 2020, at 12:15 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I said "Hi Ken" into my cellphone text messenger using text-to-speech. It wrote "Hi can." What it's saying is that we say ~ken when we think we are saying "can" as a norm. For my saying ~yer is will write "your" or " you're" (It checks context). It does not like the glottalized "t" endings that most of us do. So it's good to pop those ending "t"'.
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> https://justpaste.it/speechtotext
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> Tom Zurinskas, Originally from SW Conn 20 yrs, college NE Tenn 3, work SE NJ 33, resides SE Florida 18... truespel.com
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