I’ve had a few clients ask me in recent times about voice recognition and whether it would be better (read: more cost effective) for them to use than digital transcription. One of the things I’ve said to them is that the tech currently has problems handling accents. I share this YouTube video – shared by my friend and colleague Kathie Thomas – for your enjoyment. Whilst it is absolutely hilarious, it does raise the point that we have quite a way to go with the cultural bias in our current voice recognition tech – and incidentally, the client was from the US with a Tennessee accent. Given the range of accents right across the US I wonder what sort of voice over we should be using?
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Lyn Prowse-Bishop – www.execstress.com
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Thanks for this post Lyn. I too have been getting queries from clients on Voice Recognition. Having tried to use it myself I found it was time consuming to train the pc to recognise my voice and there were heaps of errors! In fact I had been looking for some time for information on the web and have just found yours through browsing LinkedIn. I would like to link this post to my own web blog.
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Mary
Thanks for your comment Mary. I’d be pleased for you to link to the post from your blog.