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Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 10:14 am
by ge_rik
I just had this email from the chair of the Narrow Gauge Railway Society. Any volunteers?
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Rik
Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 10:23 am
by ge_rik
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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Rik
Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:09 am
by dudeface
Hats fun knee
Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2023 1:58 pm
by drewzero1
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.
Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:20 am
by Old Man Aaron
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.
Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:03 am
by Scrat
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....
Re: Typos and speech to text gaffs which make me smile
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:23 pm
by drewzero1
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
(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!