Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Soft Kitty or Well you god

"The budget bye. Hello commuting so kitty later. ON mon used to sing it to me when I was sick, hey hey, I don't know teach you and Com. Katy will in duties doodle Volvo to. Hmm. Happy gav sleepy gav a to God. Well you god."


There is a bit of padding on this clip because Google Voice wouldn't transcribe just the song on it's own. This transcription is of the song "Soft Kitty" that my wife and I first heard on a show called the Big Bang Theory. The first time we heard this, both my wife and I died laughing. Afterword it became kind of a running joke at our house to sing it to each other when something went wrong or one of us was feeling rough. We've even made the song part of out daughters bedtime routine. So, along with a reading of Goodnight Moon, our daughter is serenaded to sleep by me singing Soft Kitty to her two or three times.

As a side note, Soft Kitty wasn't made up for the show, it was a remix of a song that already existed. Here is the Wikipedia article on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Kitty


Here is the clip that I fed into Google Voice:
Actual Message

Monday, January 30, 2012

Hell yeah and the Chinese Bed

"Hell yeah, you left in here. So I was at wash my car. I thought it was quite a Chinese bed that you guys in my bedroom. I'll see you later. Bye."

     This is one from the other day. We had left some things at my mother-in-law's house and she called to let us know that she had our stuff. Now my mother-in-law is a good Christian lady who doesn't drink, smoke, and especially doesn't curse. In fact for a long time my wife got in trouble if she said the word crap around her house. But if you believed what Google Voice would tell us, instead of saying hello, she goes around saying to everyone "Hell yeah!" instead of hello. Why Google wants to besmirch my mother-in-law's good name, we don't know.
     The Chinese bed part comes from the habit my mother-in-law has of getting my wife and her sister's name mixed up and correcting herself halfway through. The result of which this time led Google to believe that my mother-in-law has "quite a Chinese bed." Maybe that was Google's attempt to make it up to her for trying to ruin her good name? Who knew that you could exchange a good name for really good Chinese furniture?

Actual message

Hello!

Hi, may name is Daniel and welcome to my blog. I've been using Google voice for a while and both my wife and I have been getting a kick out of some of the transcription results. The purpose of this blog is to share the ones that we have found to be the funniest as well as to post what the results of of our experiments to see what happens when we send parts of TV shows, movies, poems, etc. through the Google voice transcription algorithms. Also, I'm going to set up a Google voice number so that if someone wants to call in with something weird that they want to see the results of we can post that as well. I hope you enjoy being lost in dictation as much as we have.