Say what? Voice-to-text loses in translation
A colleague got the following voice-to-text message last night. See if you can figure out what it ought to say.
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“Good evening spoke an(?) State Representative is Marcus with Shelly and Tim arms be along with Senator Randy Bill legs(?) are currently holding a live telephone town hall meeting but it appears that you’re unavailable. If you get this message before seven fifteen pm tonight and you’d like to purchase a paid. Just call toll free 18772298493 and enter the ID code 186461 prompted. For the record the phone number placing this call is 3607867604. Thank you and have a good night.” |
Translation inside the blog.
The real message was:
“Good evening. Spokane State Representatives Marcus Riccelli and Timm Ormbsby, along with Senator Andy Billig are currently holding a live telephone town hall meeting but it appears you’re unavailable. If you get this message before 7:15 p.m. tonight and you’d like to participate, just call…
The rest is pretty good, except for the ID number, which should be listed as ” enter ID code 18646 when prompted.”
We’re guessing that the Robocall and the Voice-to-text machine don’t play well together.
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