[This is a series of backfills from the last weekend where I was pretty much away from computers.]
I made a switch to google voice recently. Not for the complete service, just for the voicemail forwarding and its already been indispensible, but humorous. Throughout the weekend, I actually was out in my hometown which still has spotty cell coverage at best. Typically, I never check my voice mail, but I just call or SMS people back directly. Google voice was handy because i was getting SMS transcriptions of the actual message, even when I didn’t get the call.
However, transcription is not a perfect art, yet. The results can be entertaining. I just received the following from an indian restaurant:
I’ve got your auto. From are eat 2040. Please give me a call before I start making your order. Thank you. My number is 6 political 4 and 53451028. Phone Number (415) 245-1028. Thank you.
My dad saw the service and was very hopeful, he has been dreaming of a good Speech-To-Text system for years, so he doesn’t have to learn how to type.
I would rather play typing of the dead.