Voice recognition software needs to be developed to take regional accents into account.

[raccoon]

For the US: One for General American, one for Southern Accent, one for NYC accent, etc.

Otherwise, those who have regional accents have to make mucho corrections.


(Seriously--if I can be serious here--Voice recognition has come a long way since I first tried it, maybe 20 years ago.)

[rampartc]

1. there is a "southern alexa"

bless her heart.

[ProudLib72]

3. Sounds like my relatives from TX

Oh how I worked to get rid of my own TX accent when I was a kid!

[Harker]

8. What's the past tense of 'drag?'

My late wife was from El Paso. She had to be drug out of the thee-ayter.

[ProudLib72]

9. Nope: dragged

The two that stuck with me until I was in my late teens were "measure" and "pinch." I pronounced them "may-zhure" and "peench." I still say, "Put up your things" and "I'm going to fix dinner." People didn't notice those as much until I went to the east coast. Gotta watch those damned Yankees.

[Harker]

10. Yes, we do.

I only fix dinner after I bust it.

[raccoon]

4. Beautiful! nt

[Backseat Driver]

2. Twenty years ago, there was no readers or voice to text...

Guess we'll cry together...before that technology, I had a job; I was obliged to hear those accents as well as foreign ones, Brits, Scottish, Nigerian, Syrian, and Eastern Indian physicians too, and transcribe the specialized vocabulary of medicine without spelling errors, technical errors, as well as their errors of English grammar. So sad that it's all on the dictator now...hahaha! Spend some time "training" that software, and you won't have so many corrections. BTW, my docs just stopped reviewing their dictation altogether. They sent their dictation off-site/off-shore for completion. The reports went out by e-mail just as it came back, errors and all; they just pushed the EASY button. Someone would let them know if the report was erroneous at some point, I guess, right? Perhaps just before they cut the wrong leg off or gave the wrong script? It was cheaper than giving me even part time hours or enough to be eligible for the group health care policy. We both got duped.

[Skittles]

5. it's all in the vowels

for example, the words bible and babble are NOT pronounced the same - except in areas of the country where a soft 'a' and a hard 'i' are pronounced exactly the same

[raccoon]

6. With me, sometimes it gives 2 words for one word.

For example, it says "stay up" when I said "step." LOL.

[Skittles]

7. hair becomes HAY-ER or in some states "HIGH-ER"

it makes me cringe, and I lived in the south for decades