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Speech Recognition Poetry

January 24, 2005 :: :: Original Blog

Microsoft Word comes with a speech recognition component, which must be "trained" to recognize your voice. It also helps a lot if you use a good microphone. However, after some experimenting, I've found that when you speak into an old set of headphones and don't train it at all, MS Word makes its own poetry through not understanding a single word you're saying.

Here's the result from reciting Shakespeare's Sonnet 48 into speech recoginition. [Tip for schoolkids: This isn't even plagerism!]

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Sonnet 48 ("Translated")

So here was winning
Each tried to install and
Then to mine use in mind: They
Prone a N. pearl Olson The issue were words of trust
But now to my age and tried all are
Most were indeed prowl my greatest.
The best of his pen mine only two years
Part (a very remote. The Then revolve. He
The headline not locked up any chance of
They were found not part of the fuel I feel the of
They came again so low assurance]
Phone when south placer No means, and Before
Any even then Bill will he still live here
For truth proves the bench for a broad and so you your problem
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