[wplug] Google Voice

[Matthew J Hughes]

You can flag the transcription on the page to let google listen to it. 
So they can improve transcription.

Also, I was listening to TWIT or OSNEWS podcast (I am catching up) from 
a couple of months ago. One of the traditional carriers, AT&T iirc, was 
asking the FCC to look into Google voice because they did not provide 
service to certain rural areas. ( there was an assertion, the areas had 
adult call centers located in them, not sure who that relates tho.)


George Larson wrote:
> JAJAJA!!   That clearly outperforms my finest Google-garbled message. 
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Brian Roberts <blroberts at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>             <mailto:billings at negate.org>>
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