Speech

Quboid · Oct 20, 2006

Just curious, does anyone use the OSX speech feature? Where you speek commands to the computer. If yes, why? if no, why not?

G4 for life!

mad jew · Oct 20, 2006

It plainly doesn't recognise my Australian accent and it goes too slow for me. I don't use it.

MrSmith · Oct 20, 2006

mad jew said:
It plainly doesn't recognise my Australian accent...

The only thing - animate or inanimate - that can understand an Aussie is another Aussie

Back on topic... I used it as a novelty for a while, but had to repeat myself so many times and talk like an utter flibberjib that I packed it in.

mad jew · Oct 21, 2006

Flammin' Limmies. Growa sense o' outback talk, ya ghost-faced gallah!

MrSmith · Oct 21, 2006

mad jew said:
Flammin' Limmies. Growa sense o' outback talk, ya ghost-faced gallah!

I rest my case m'lud. Especially on that last one: gallah

mad jew · Oct 21, 2006

From my own private collection, the giant gallah at Kimba (I was there two days ago):

For what it's worth, even Apple's inbuilt dictionary doesn't recognise gallah, let alone the speech database.