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Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile

Post by ge_rik » Tue May 17, 2022 10:14 am

I just had this email from the chair of the Narrow Gauge Railway Society. Any volunteers?
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Post by ge_rik » Tue May 17, 2022 10:23 am

In addition,. I was watching one of my past videos after receiving a comment about it and happened to catch these revealing speech to text gaffs. Normally, the closed caption subtitles on YouTube are very good, but it does struggle with unfamiliar names - particularly Peckforton

This should read "Peckett loco number one, "Peckforton" ironically
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..... and is passing Peckforton Mill on the approach to Peckforton
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These two are self explanatory....
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Post by dudeface » Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:09 am

Hats fun knee :happy3:
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Post by drewzero1 » Wed Nov 22, 2023 1:58 pm

I once got an email from a banker I was working with: "I am a waste in the office until noon today..."

By this point we'd come to expect his plentiful text-to-speech errors as they were in almost every email, but if he had said that in our first interaction I would have probably been looking for a different bank. :|

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Post by Old Man Aaron » Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:20 am

I thought about trying out a speech to text program, to shorten the excessive lengths of time I spend translating my thoughts into written words.

They all just leave too many mistakes to fix. :lol: :roll:
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Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile

Post by Scrat » Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:03 am

As an assessor I get lots and lots of documents to check.
I have a huge file in the office containing only the best ones.

German autocorrect went in and changes "Worst-case Betrieb" to WURST Case Betrieb. (Sausage case Operation).

Some things turn robust by the change of a letter. Maximum DC ripple voltage 10 MV (should have been mV). I would like to see that unit....
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Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile

Post by drewzero1 » Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:23 pm

Scrat wrote: Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:03 am As an assessor I get lots and lots of documents to check.
I have a huge file in the office containing only the best ones.

German autocorrect went in and changes "Worst-case Betrieb" to WURST Case Betrieb. (Sausage case Operation).

Some things turn robust by the change of a letter. Maximum DC ripple voltage 10 MV (should have been mv). I would like to see that unit....
I'd like to think a sausage case operation would be far from the worst case, unless the 'operation' in question was bowel surgery :silent: (I know that'd be Eingriff/Operation rather than Betrieb, but it works in English at least.)
For a while I belonged to a local originally-German Lutheran congregation who joked we were the only church in town who prayed for the wurst...

I'm positive that witnessing a DC ripple like that would be a shocking experience!

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