Designers [of voice recognition systems] found that Southerners had more trouble using the system than Northerners didm because when instructed to answer "yes" or "no" Southerners regularly added "ma'am" or "sir," depending on the I.V.R.'s gender, and the computer wasn't programmed to recognize that.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Science Tuesday: Hal in India?
The New Yorker is lame and only makes part of the current issue available online, so no link today. No big loss. John Seabrook's article "Hello, HAL" is a good overview of some of the problems facing voice recognition problems, but its certainly not worth getting the mag just for this article. I just wanted to share this:
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