My new smart phone writes good.

[rayheinrich]

       


There may or may not be a discussion in here somewhere:

(How technology effects our writing?)
or
(Why sons can't be bright anymore, they have to be intelligent.)

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My wife got me a new cell phone because a few of the buttons on my
old phone were pretty iffy and sometimes I couldn't answer her calls.
("A likely excuse", she'd say.)

So, she got me a new phone:

It has excellent voice recognition. I can dictate to it in normal, unbroken
sentences and it routinely goes 50-100 words without screwing up.

"She sells sea shells by the seashore." is 100% accurate until I screw up.

More impressive is that I can dictate: "You're not supposed to suck your
thumb." and it does not confuse "you're" and "your" (unlike a few of the
members here). It obviously has to be look at the sentence and figure out
which is which from their context.

Homophones are more difficult for it, but it can discriminate between many of the
common ones. It gets these correctly: "I can see your eye", "I can see the sea",
"My dear Kathy saw a deer", "... a stupid son and a bright sun.",  
"The boats sail was on sale". It doesn't get that "boats" should be "boat's",
but "My car's engine is missing." works fine.

Things it gets wrong:
"My new smart phone writes good.": It lets me get away with using "good".

"Wait till the sun shines Nelly.": It uses "till" instead of " 'til";
and, if you look it up on Wiki, her name is spelled "Nellie".

Of course, if you look at the photograph of the 1905 sheet music cover
in Wiki, you'll see that the publisher uses " 'till". So I guess I'll forgive
the phone for that one.