RE: Telling HAL what to do (now computer lore)

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

This is an old "urban legend" for computers.  When the story first started, 
speech recognition was very primitive(it still is.)  Especially in a large 
conference room, it isn't going to work that well with someone shouting.

Brett

> The dangers of voice recognition -- be careful what you wish for, you just
> might get it:
>
> At a Sacramento PC User's Group meeting, a company was demonstrating its
> latest speech-recognition software. A representative from the company
> was just about ready to start the demonstration and asked everyone in the
> room to quiet down.
>
> Just then someone in the back of the room yelled:
>
> "Format - C - Colon - Return."
>
> To which someone else added:
>
> "Y - Return"
>
> ...everyone was quite impressed with how well the software worked!
>
> John
> 1990 Coupe Q, 145k miles (manually operated, no billg software in sight)

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