Voice recognition software sure is great sometimes.
Works efficiently and gets easily well over 95% of words and phrases right. it works so well in fact that it loves to lull you into complacence, happily transcribing away at high speed, just before dropping in something of outrageously dada-esque inappropriateness right into some important piece of correspondence you were just reaching for the send button to fire off.
Like for instance as I was sending a quick e-mail asking for something to do with code and a “slightly more complicated” logic this of course is taken to be:
(This one) I caught just in time. Yes Dragon NaturallySpeaking, I would like to retrain your understanding of that phrase…
As if you didn’t know, Makamba is the capital city of the province of the same name in the southern part of the central African Republic of Burundi. Clearly, the younger and more lascivious-minded of the population there could be understood to have in common a specific type of deductive reasoning.
So in the future or the past, should you see an e-mail or a post from me that’s a little more haiku than you were expecting, now you know.
And if that headline doesn’t get me click-throughs I don’t know what will.