A Minnesota farm wife called the local phone company to report her telephone failed to ring when her friends called and that on the few occasions when it did ring her dog always moaned right before the phone rang.
The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile lady.
He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring right away, but then the dog moaned and the telephone began to ring.
Climbing down from the pole, the telephone repairman found.
1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire with a steel chain and collar.
2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose.
3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was called.
4. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.
5. The wet ground would complete the circuit, thus causing the phone to ring.
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Which demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by pissing and moaning. HA!!!
oh by the way, sorry I haven't replied back to comments yet, I will ... promise. I've just been sick with a case of lazy lately!
As most of you know, I do medical transcription from home for a local company. We do not have voice recognition as of yet, but my boss did look into this a few years ago. Perhaps at some point, he may go to voice recognition software, like Dragonfly Naturally, however this has "bugs" and cannot recognize certain dictated sentences, such as the ones below. Therefore, even though some companies have voice recognition, they still employ someone to monitor and correct these "bugs!"
Some examples of what was said and what was produced by voice recognition software, as reported on the Internet:
Doctor: He has 8 children.
VR: He ate his children. ----------------------------------- Doctor: She has no suicidal ideation, (umm) fortunately.
VR: She has no suicidal ideation, unfortunately. ----------------------------------- Doctor: This is John Smith dictating.
VR: This is John Smith defecating. ---------------------------------- Doctor: It appears the majority of her symptoms are related to her cyst.
VR: It appears the majority of her symptoms are related to her sister. --------------------------------- Doctor: The patient has a white, thick coating on his tongue.
VR: The patient has white, thick cocaine on his tongue. ------------------------------------ Doctor: Blood pressure 138/94.
VR: Butt pressure 138/94. -------------------------------------- Doctor: The other issue the patient has is pelvic pain.
VR: The other issue the patient has is Hell pain. ---------------------------------- Doctor: The patient has a problem with her step-grandchildren, who she perceives as rude.
VR: The patient has a problem with her step-grandchildren, who she perceives as food. ----------------------------------- Doctor: I do not feel that he has acute infection today.
VR: I do not feel that he has a Q-Tip infection today. ---------------------------------- Doctor: End of dictation.
VR: End of the patient. -------------------------------- Doctor: He is married, 2 children.
VR: He is married to children.
Other companies are working on voice reconigiton programs, like Microsoft for instance ... watch ...
this video is stupid silly, LOL, and this white fluffy dude is getting his blood pressure worked up! not to mention this singing background chorus! ha!
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