[wplug] Google Voice

[George Larson]

JAJAJA!!   That clearly outperforms my finest Google-garbled message.

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Brian Roberts <blroberts at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have one also if anyone wants it.     It is great to read some of the bad
> transcripts,  but after you start to speak Google language for a while you
> can usually interpret without too much trouble.
>
> This one from my  mom did get me though...I had no clue what it meant.  I
> don't even know a Keith....
>
> "Hi Brian, It's your mom Jimmy. It's 5. After 2 and if you wanna I didn't
> know if you still were coming to make love keith. I'm gonna start working
> on it. Nevada half our service, so I'll talk to youlater. Bye."
>
>
> huh?
>
> Brian
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:44 AM, George Larson <george.g.larson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Added bonus for me is that when Google tries to guess my son's name, it
>> almost always comes up with 'demon'.  So I get the most hilarious messages
>> from the school...  ;-P
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:18:42AM -0500, George Larson wrote:
>>> > 2. Text message transcription:  I'm in love with this feature.
>>>  Somebody
>>> > calls me and I don't pick up.  Google takes a pretty good guess at what
>>> they
>>> > said and then sends the transcript via email or SMS.  So I ignore the
>>> kid's
>>> > call because I'm in a meeting, right?  I get a text within moments that
>>> > tells me if the call is "Can I go to whomever's house?" or something
>>> > demanding more immediate attention (e.g. "I'm locked out of the house")
>>>
>>> I can't agree more with you about this feature.  I gave my GV number
>>> to my realtor because it will ring at home, work and on my cell during
>>> certain hours.  However, getting her (sometimes frequent, usually
>>> stream-of-consciousness) voicemail was a pain until I started using
>>> this feature.  Now I can read the email while listening to the
>>> voicemail (which highlights the words being spoken in the text as you
>>> listen), and refer back to it later.  This is terribly useful to
>>> someone like me who has a hard time understanding voice on the phone.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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