Your best 'worst' Google Voice transcription errors
Last week, we shared three of our wackiest mistranscribed voice messages from Google Voice and asked you to pass along the funniest flubs from your own in-box. Your hilarious samples poured in through comments and e-mails. We've rounded up some fine specimens of voice mail meanings that were definitely lost in translation in our gallery.
In defense of Google Voice, computer-aided transcription technology is still maturing. While Google Voice's engine doesn't get it right all the time--or even most of the time in our case--it's better than nothing. At the very least, it produces amusing gems like the ones in our collection.
Scroll through the comments for more choice voice-to-text slip-ups and read about a fee-based alternative visual voice mail transcription to Google Voice, BT's Ribbit, that promises to get transcriptions right and doesn't require an invitation to join.
Jessica Dolcourt reviews the latest and greatest smartphone apps, in addition to a healthy dose of Windows software. E-mail Jessica and follow her on Twitter. 
when the major phone companies were illegally allowing the feds to listen in during the bush years, obama granted them amnesty.
your privacy wasn't intact in the last administration and it isnt now. at least google has been known to demand a court order... sometimes.
- by rlopin December 4, 2009 8:02 AM PST
- I left the following message for myself, a line from the most popular song of the movie Mary Poppins:
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(6 Comments)"Supercalifragilisticexpialadocious, if you try to say it fast it really sounds precocious"
and here is what Google Voice transcribed it into:
"Super. Tele fragile mystic X P, Jacelyn delicious. If you tried to say it's fast relief. Sounds precocious."