Once again, I need to say that Google Voice rocks. I love getting transcripts of voice mail as e-mail and SMS. I hate answering the phone, because it’s such an interruption, and because if I need to write anything down I have to find my computer and type it up somewhere … so it’s ten times easier to just get it as a transcript anyway.
Google’s voice recognition isn’t perfect though. Here’s a portion of a message I received earlier:
This is Katie calling from city told. It’s about 12:30 on Friday 13 7 november, Call let you know that you do your prison is ready for pickup.
I’m sorry, my WHAT?
OK, the guy who was handling my car goes by his initials, “KD”, and I can see how that gets turned into “Katie”. He was calling from a place called City Toyota. I’m a little surprised that “Toyota” isn’t a word Google Voice recognizes. But the funniest thing in this transcript is that it turned “Prizm”, as in Geo Prizm, the 12 year old car that needed over a thousand dollars of repairs thanks to some incompetent would-be car thieves, into “prison”.
We got a good chuckle out of that.
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