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Meaning to contribute to it, but not by posting a picture or a gif this time, but rather a recount of a personal experience this time.

I've been using speech recognition software since 2004, both in my job in German to get it done and in English to communicate with people worldwide in forums, private emails and so on.

One of the major issues with using speech recognition is what we refer to as "speak-o", which is the equivalent to a "typo" when using the keyboard. Speech recognition typically never produces a typo, as it will always only output words from the internal dictionary, where all words are spelt correctly, by default. However, whenever speaking not clearly enough, the recogniser may confuse what you actually intended to say with something else, sounding similar, but spelt different somehow. The big pain for the person using it being that they are easy to miss, because very often they are almost spelt quite close to it, so you may not notice them when, for instance, submitting an email too soon and before carefully reviewing it.

To that end, just recently, I've been dictating a message to this forum saying "Les Paul", where the output from the recogniser was "less porn".

Just imagining the reactions I would have got if I had missed it and not corrected it prior to submitting my message?
 
RWilke said:
Meaning to contribute to it, but not by posting a picture or a gif this time, but rather a recount of a personal experience this time.

I've been using speech recognition software since 2004, both in my job in German to get it done and in English to communicate with people worldwide in forums, private emails and so on.

One of the major issues with using speech recognition is what we refer to as "speak-o", which is the equivalent to a "typo" when using the keyboard. Speech recognition typically never produces a typo, as it will always only output words from the internal dictionary, where all words are spelt correctly, by default. However, whenever speaking not clearly enough, the recogniser may confuse what you actually intended to say with something else, sounding similar, but spelt different somehow. The big pain for the person using it being that they are easy to miss, because very often they are almost spelt quite close to it, so you may not notice them when, for instance, submitting an email too soon and before carefully reviewing it.

To that end, just recently, I've been dictating a message to this forum saying "Les Paul", where the output from the recogniser was "less porn".

Just imagining the reactions I would have got if I had missed it and not corrected it prior to submitting my message?
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So, everything we read from you comes from that application ?
 
BGood said:
Funny, I would never had thought to get involved on a forum I don't know the language of.

I guess I'm old ...
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You're not old, I guess. But you are getting it wrong. German is my first language, being born and grown up in Germany. English is my second language, being taught English at school, and by a native speaker, and Irishman, and fooling around with English or better yet Irish speaking people since I was a teenager. And besides, the entire English spoken culture as represented by American and British music coming my way ever since I was a kid was another major source of influence. Later on, I studied English at university, among other things also.
 
RWilke said:
Meaning to contribute to it, but not by posting a picture or a gif this time, but rather a recount of a personal experience this time.

I've been using speech recognition software since 2004, both in my job in German to get it done and in English to communicate with people worldwide in forums, private emails and so on.

One of the major issues with using speech recognition is what we refer to as "speak-o", which is the equivalent to a "typo" when using the keyboard. Speech recognition typically never produces a typo, as it will always only output words from the internal dictionary, where all words are spelt correctly, by default. However, whenever speaking not clearly enough, the recogniser may confuse what you actually intended to say with something else, sounding similar, but spelt different somehow. The big pain for the person using it being that they are easy to miss, because very often they are almost spelt quite close to it, so you may not notice them when, for instance, submitting an email too soon and before carefully reviewing it.

To that end, just recently, I've been dictating a message to this forum saying "Les Paul", where the output from the recogniser was "less porn".

Just imagining the reactions I would have got if I had missed it and not corrected it prior to submitting my message?
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Less porn is always a wise choice :ROFLMAO:

However you choose to communicate is great as long as it works! I can imagine with the increase in AI technology, we will all one day be able to communicate with anyone in any given language.
 
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Borrowed from frets.com, along with the comment:

"This one is quite a study in confusion. Its owner complained about difficulty in tuning, which is no surprise, considering that five are wound backwards, and four of them go to the wrong posts. Yes, it really did come into the shop strung like this."
 
RWilke said:
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Borrowed from frets.com, along with the comment:

"This one is quite a study in confusion. Its owner complained about difficulty in tuning, which is no surprise, considering that five are wound backwards, and four of them go to the wrong posts. Yes, it really did come into the shop strung like this."
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That's the guy that showed me this chord.
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Jean, no offence intended, but you didn't get the message from the guy showing you the chord. That's the nuclear guitar chord or the equivalent to the universe Big Bang in terms of guitar playing. This is where all other guitar chords emanated from. Just telling you this as you don't seem to be aware of it.
 
RWilke said:
Jean, no offence intended, but you didn't get the message from the guy showing you the chord. That's the nuclear guitar chord or the equivalent to the universe Big Bang in terms of guitar playing. This is where all other guitar chords emanated from. Just telling you this as you don't seem to be aware of it.
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That's actually my own hand. I was wondering why the pond by the house emptied when I first strummed the chord 4 years ago. I thought it was because of the nearby 5G antenna installed during the 2020 plague. Thanks for clarifying that. I'll again go to bed less dumb tonight.
 
RWilke said:
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Borrowed from frets.com, along with the comment:

"This one is quite a study in confusion. Its owner complained about difficulty in tuning, which is no surprise, considering that five are wound backwards, and four of them go to the wrong posts. Yes, it really did come into the shop strung like this."
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That's the worst stringing job I have ever seen lol! I got an SG once on trade and the high E was strung up backwards. I laughed!
 
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