Comments on: The art of not pissing people off with voice-operated systems http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2011/11/the-art-of-not-pissing-people-off-with-voice-operated-systems/ Schrodinger's tagline is both clever and banal at the same time Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chas, PE SE http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2011/11/the-art-of-not-pissing-people-off-with-voice-operated-systems/#comment-20773 Chas, PE SE Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:59:59 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=2308#comment-20773 “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”. Also in that book, when one asked for ‘Telephone’ a simulcarum of a human head popped out of the wall.

Agree with your characterization of computer voices, and how people interact with them. If the menu said, “for an operator press ’0′” in the first menu, prectically everyone would press ’0′, aND ASK WHAT THE ADDRESS WAs, for the fax number, what were the hours, etc.

Friend of mine was using an early voice operation system. It didn’t speak Texan. As his frustration built, I looked at him and said, “Rotate the pod, HAL”. He broke up.

]]> By: Ole Phat Stu http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/2011/11/the-art-of-not-pissing-people-off-with-voice-operated-systems/#comment-20297 Ole Phat Stu Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:57:55 +0000 http://www.decrepitoldfool.com/?p=2308#comment-20297 Way back when, IBM were demonstrating speaker independent voice recognition (for MS-DOS commands) at the Hanover Trade Fair on a PC.

With moderate success.

Until I leaned over and said into the demo mike “See colon format yes yes” ;-)

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