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.

[billy]

will it dictate expletives.? the fuck you say.

i used to be a homophone but i'm okay now.
which phone robot is ot i think apple have sirus, i've yet to try it. tried the one on windows and it gets everything wrong.
it sounds like it would be good for train of thought diction in the hopes of getting a few good lines out to work with. i'm bad with pen and paper, which translates into i'm hopeless for writing things down. i may give the phone a try.

[rayheinrich]

will it dictate expletives.? the fuck you say.

How the fuck could I have missed testing that?
Thank you billy.

If someone had asked me, "If you forgot to test your fucking dictation
software's fucking ability to fucking capture fucking expletive reproducibility,
who would you fucking think would be the fucking first to fucking inform
you of such?"; I, unhesitatingly, would have said, "fucking billy".

I am off to test this, will report back.

i used to be a homophone but i'm okay now.
which phone robot is ot i think apple have sirus, i've yet to try it. tried the one on windows and it gets everything wrong.
it sounds like it would be good for train of thought diction in the hopes of getting a few good lines out to work with. i'm bad with pen and paper, which translates into i'm hopeless for writing things down. i may give the phone a try.

I didn't make that clear, should have.

My new phone is an Android based one. Android(read Google) has a half-decent voice-to-text app
that you get with the phone, but that's not the one I was talking about.

The company Nuance sells a keyboard called "Swype Keyboard".  It costs $ 0.99 U.S.
at the 'Google Play' site. Nuance bought the company that produced Dragon speech
recognition software a while back and they decided to include a version of Dragon with
the keyboard app. Dragon costs $70 to $150 if you get it for a Microsoft Windows
computer (which my wife uses) so I thought this would be a dumbed-down version.
But it's not. It's better than my wife's PC version. Who knows... but if you have an
Android phone you should try it out.

ray



P.S. And billy, just in case you should ever take my jabs too seriously,
I want you to know that you wrote the best poem I've seen this year:




                may 28th 2017
                                        - billy


Her greeting card dropped through the box
to lay on the obvious gas and electric bills;
I tried to catch them mid fall and failed.
I remember my indecision on which one to open first.
The bills were laid to rest on the taffeta table cloth,
and the letter opener which had a silver strawberry atop
the handle, went to work.
I smelled crimson off the red lettering;
saw her love of calligraphy in the hand.
Will be home soon with Sean and the baby.

It was signed Dorothy and carried a Nepalese stamp.

[bena]

Google answers pop culture questions right, like "what is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything" "42" and such. I keep meaning to ask it to read me a poem, because when I asked Siri she read one of my favorite vogon ones.

One son has the Windows phone (Google) the other has Cortana. (she's a smart ass, I like her better)

[rayheinrich]

As per billy's suggestion, I conducted some Swype Keyboard Dragon Speech Recognition expletive tests.

The results:
Warning, clicking the button below will expose you to doubleplusungood words.

Test sentence number one:
"You fucking dickhead, you prick asshole shit bastard."
Results:
"You fucking dickhead, you prick asshole shit bastard."

Perfect.


Test sentence number two:
"Up your fucking cunt you bitch, you shitty little twat."
Results:
"Up your fucking cunt you bitch, you shitty little Twatt."

Excellent, but not perfect. It records a capitalized "Twatt"
instead of "twat". According to Google: "Twatt" is either  
"A settlement in the Shetland Islands of Scotland."
or
"A settlement in the Orkney Islands of Scotland."

Scotland, it seems, has two Twatts.