Post by armadillozenith on Jun 22, 2006 23:06:45 GMT
Watching the BBC news tonight, Reporting Scotland, they have a system that puts up near-real-time transcriptions of what the newsreaders say. It's amusingly error-prone, and so well worth following.
If it's speech recognition software (rather than some bod typing in a hurry) I suppose it's very clever, but it's often misspelt or totally wrong; sometimes it pauses then appends a corrected version of a misrendered phrase... which, itself, may be wrong (eg 'ensqueet', amended to 'ensweet', for 'en suite').
Some of the funnier ones, all within half an hour, were:
(discussing review of Trident missile program),
"It won't be holy roo but Westminster that decides".
(The idea of a placental grazing herbivore, however saintly, deciding our nuclear weapons policy is rather alarming).
(For nonUK residents: that should be 'Holyrood', referring to the location of the Scottish devolved parliamentary assembly).
"ethnic police officers" was represented as "Nick Nick police officers" - I'm not kidding, honest it was!
(How comedian Jim Davidson has impacted our culture... the BBC computer must be a fan).
Discussing Farmer's Markets,
"..but they can only ever be Mr Perry iferal"
(peripheral).
And profiling cycling athlete David Miller:
"at his strain g training base".
I wonder if some programming wag has deliberately set the system up to generate amusing oddities for a laugh or a dare...
...it certainly adds a dimension of surreal hilarity to the news, waiting to see what howler comes up next!
If it's speech recognition software (rather than some bod typing in a hurry) I suppose it's very clever, but it's often misspelt or totally wrong; sometimes it pauses then appends a corrected version of a misrendered phrase... which, itself, may be wrong (eg 'ensqueet', amended to 'ensweet', for 'en suite').
Some of the funnier ones, all within half an hour, were:
(discussing review of Trident missile program),
"It won't be holy roo but Westminster that decides".
(The idea of a placental grazing herbivore, however saintly, deciding our nuclear weapons policy is rather alarming).
(For nonUK residents: that should be 'Holyrood', referring to the location of the Scottish devolved parliamentary assembly).
"ethnic police officers" was represented as "Nick Nick police officers" - I'm not kidding, honest it was!
(How comedian Jim Davidson has impacted our culture... the BBC computer must be a fan).
Discussing Farmer's Markets,
"..but they can only ever be Mr Perry iferal"
(peripheral).
And profiling cycling athlete David Miller:
"at his strain g training base".
I wonder if some programming wag has deliberately set the system up to generate amusing oddities for a laugh or a dare...
...it certainly adds a dimension of surreal hilarity to the news, waiting to see what howler comes up next!
