RANT ABOUT AUTO CORRECT - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: grifftech
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 05:02:02 am
content: I have a love \ hate relationship with the auto CORRECT on my kindle fire HD

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 09:40:09 am
content: Try Google voice recognition with a non US accent. Jack Hetu at work tried, just using his name, and we were all laughing at the things that the recogniser gave as it's interpretation. Nothing that even came close to being the name spoken. Must be the French accent and the little bit of Congolese accent that skewed the answers, which are not something that are allowed on this forum. Even the OK Google sometimes is hard to trigger.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 09:53:38 am
content: Google should understand that I have never in my life wanted to text "ducking". It seems awfully christian-minded in that manner, thinking that every word is oh so innocent.

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 10:38:57 am
content: Generally, I don't have a problem with autocorrect in texting, but speaking is another matter. Sooner or later I'm going to get investigated for all the profanities that I've accidentally searched for using google voice search...

author: Falcon69
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 10:48:21 am
content: LOLFluffy did a bit in one of his stage acts about auto correcting. His iphone lied to his girlfriend for him!EDIT: Here it is, funny stuff

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 11:17:28 am
content: Turn on the automatic subtitling on any of the EEVblog videos, you might get one word in 10 as being the right one, but the other 9 are either incorrect or wildly hilarious and incorrect.Then try the same with the auto translate from other languages, especially Russian or Chinese.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 03:30:01 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on October 10, 2015, 11:17:28 amThe voice recognition was trained on news articles so you get some very interesting phrases in there. My favourite one is here:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-112-gsm-vs-the-fluke-87v-multimeter/msg17546/#msg17546As for autocorrect, I never use it and never want it. Better I make the mistake (which rarely happens) than the machine misinterpreting me...

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 05:10:06 pm
content: Deer SirHear is the knew pear of blew genes that ewe ordered.What we need is a speech recognition and auto correct system that is context aware.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 10, 2015, 05:11:28 pm
content: Autocorrect used to be called DWIM (do what I mean), and it has a long and inglorious history.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 11, 2015, 04:04:50 pm
content: Dragon Naturally speaking has one person who has absolutely no problems with it, and that same person also has no problems with handwriting recognition software either, as he provided a major chunk of the initial database used to develop them.I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess who.As to autocorrect, I turn it off, and just let it highlight incorrect spellings and miscapitalised stuff so I can choose to correct it. Funny enough it does not recognise autocorrect as a valid spelling.......

author: JoeB83
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 12, 2015, 07:39:00 am
content: Quote from: tom66 on October 10, 2015, 09:53:38 amI've had the same problem.

author: Neilm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 12, 2015, 06:54:27 pm
content: True - reminds me of the classic "Ann owed two a spelling checker"

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 12, 2015, 09:19:47 pm
content: Quote from: Neilm on October 12, 2015, 06:54:27 pmYup...QuoteBut I prefer...Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquartersnear Paris found English to be an easy language ... until they tried topronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses belowwere devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months athard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF======================Dearest creature in creation,Study English pronunciation.I will teach you in my verseSounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.I will keep you, Suzy, busy,Make your head with heat grow dizzy.Tear in eye, your dress will tear.So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.Just compare heart, beard, and heard,Dies and diet, lord and word,Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it's written.)Now I surely will not plague youWith such words as plaque and ague.But be careful how you speak:Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;Cloven, oven, how and low,Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.Hear me say, devoid of trickery,Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,Exiles, similes, and reviles;Scholar, vicar, and cigar,Solar, mica, war and far;One, anemone, Balmoral,Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;Gertrude, German, wind and mind,Scene, Melpomene, mankind.Billet does not rhyme with ballet,Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.Blood and flood are not like food,Nor is mould like should and would.Viscous, viscount, load and broad,Toward, to forward, to reward.And your pronunciation's OKWhen you correctly say croquet,Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,Friend and fiend, alive and live.Ivy, privy, famous; clamourAnd enamour rhyme with hammer.River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,Doll and roll and some and home.Stranger does not rhyme with anger,Neither does devour with clangour.Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,And then singer, ginger, linger,Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.Query does not rhyme with very,Nor does fury sound like bury.Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.Though the differences seem little,We say actual but victual.Refer does not rhyme with deafer.Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.Mint, pint, senate and sedate;Dull, bull, and George ate late.Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,Science, conscience, scientific.Liberty, library, heave and heaven,Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.We say hallowed, but allowed,People, leopard, towed, but vowed.Mark the differences, moreover,Between mover, cover, clover;Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,Chalice, but police and lice;Camel, constable, unstable,Principle, disciple, label.Petal, panel, and canal,Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,Senator, spectator, mayor.Tour, but our and succour, four.Gas, alas, and Arkansas.Sea, idea, Korea, area,Psalm, Maria, but malaria.Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.Doctrine, turpentine, marine.Compare alien with Italian,Dandelion and battalion.Sally with ally, yea, ye,Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.Say aver, but ever, fever,Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.Heron, granary, canary.Crevice and device and aerie.Face, but preface, not efface.Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.Large, but target, gin, give, verging,Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.Ear, but earn and wear and tearDo not rhyme with here but ere.Seven is right, but so is even,Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!Is a paling stout and spikey?Won't it make you lose your wits,Writing groats and saying grits?It's a dark abyss or tunnel:Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,Islington and Isle of Wight,Housewife, verdict and indict.Finally, which rhymes with enough --Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?Hiccough has the sound of cup.My advice is to give up!!!-- Author Unknown

author: Mechanical Menace
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2015, 03:17:20 am
content: Quote from: tggzzz on October 12, 2015, 09:19:47 pmIt's "The Chaos" by the Dutch English expert Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité. It was written as an exercise in pronunciation.

author: steve30
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2015, 04:54:43 pm
content: I've heard so many criticisms of autocorrect, but why do people use it in the first place? I can spell and type fine so I have no need for it (though I don't think I have any software on my machine that does auto correct anyway).

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 13, 2015, 05:38:01 pm
content: Quote from: Mechanical Menace on October 13, 2015, 03:17:20 amThank you. It seems "my" 1990 version wasn't actually complete!

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 16, 2015, 05:52:48 am
content: I found this gem of a poem... English can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.'whale oil beef hooked'