When a demo goes very bad
While perusing some of the hot headlines on Digg, I stumbled upon the following link which managed to put a sinister grin on my face. While demoing the speech recognition software on Vista, Microsoft product manager Shanen Boettcher encountered a bit of a translation error.
Several tries at making the computer understand the simple salutation “Dear Mom� was read by Microsoft software as “Dear Aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.� Attempts to correct or undo or delete the error only deepened the mess
How can an operating system make such a mistake? Two simple words transformed into a jumbled sentence?
Vista, I can’t wait to play around with the speech recognition software. How bad would “Cute puppy” be butchered?
