Defenestrated

GV: Ohh Erica I shall be too late!

Seems like Maureen's on a roll! This time, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

And GV said...

"hi david it's maureen again i thought i'd try one more time this is alice's adventures in wonderland andy's is the first 3 paragraphs alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by your sister on the bank and having nothing else to do once or twice she'd pete into the booker sister was reading but they had no pictures our conversations in it and what is the usable books thought house without pictures of conversations so she was considering in around lines as well as she could for the day in major very sweet being stupid whether the pleasure of making it daisy chain looking forward to travel to getting up and taking it easy when separately a white rabbit with paid on his rent close by her it was nothing still very remarkable about that nor did alice think it's still very much of the wait to hear the rabbit's a to itself all we are ohh erica i shall be too late the when the rev it actually took a watch out of the waste code pockets and look at it and then i read on alice starting to recede forward slash to cross your mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either but we still talk or watch to take out of it and burning with curiosity she want across the field after it i was just in time to see it popped on the larger rabbit hole 100 H in another moment alice went down after it the and"

Nest it with the AFLAC I believe

Maureen tried to read The Tale of Two Cities...

And GV said...

"hi dave this is maureen and i'm going to read the first paragraph of charles dickens' a tale of 2 cities it was the best time is it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom it was the age of fullest nest it with the aflac i believe it was the at book of in could you already it was the season of like it was the season the darkness it was this bring up the whole it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us we're all going direct haven't we were all going direct to the other way in short the period with so far like depressant period that some of the noisiest the store eddie's insisted on it's being received for go to for evil in this approaches degrees of comparison only then that was the first paragraph of charles dickens' tale of 2 cities"

Stupid Google Voice transcriptions

I just tried Google Voice for the first time today, and it's a really interesting service, including the ability to automatically transcribe voicemails so you can pick them up in e-mail or on the web. I have a heavy English accent (nothing bizarre, like Brummies, but definitely not American, either) so I did a little experiment by leaving a voicemail for myself. Here's what I said:

"I'm just trying this out. Google Voice seems pretty cool but, you know, I'm not so sure if it can try andhandle the really complicated things that one wants to do with voicemail. So I thought I would say things like efficacious, and stupendous, and deliberative, just to see how the transcription might work. On the other hand, it could be really good, and I'll be amazed, and astounded, and flabbergasted by just how good the transcription could be. I'll also look forward to receiving the message in e-mail, and if the e-mail is good then maybe I'll transition all of my phone calls to Google Voice. It's difficult to say. But, one way or another, Google is going to take over the world, and I intend to be there when they do."

And this is what Google Voice thought I said...

"i'm just trying this out to avoid seems pretty cool but you know i'm not so sure if you can try and handled it really complicated things that one wants to do with voicemail so i thought i'd say things like applications and stupendous and did with crickets just to see how the transcription might work on the other hand it could be really good and i'll be in the east of this down did flabbergasted i just have a good the transcription today i'm also i look forward to receiving the message in email and if you email is good then maybe i'll try and get all of my phone calls to google voice the fact the war in iraq google is going to take care of the will i'm going to be there when they did"

If you'd like to try making Google Voice sound silly, call 202-525-6817 and leave a message! I'll post the interesting ones here.