Dear Aunt

"Dear Aunt". It might as well be the start of a letter or an e-mail but it is actually the start of a sentence said to the Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine. It all starts when the system is told the sentence "Dear Mom" and the system writes "Dear aunt.

On a live Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine demonstration, the demonstrator tells the system a simple sentence: "Dear Aunt", then the system writes ‘Dear Mom’. Then the one who said the sentence tries to erase what he just wrote (through voice commands), and instead of listening to the his orders and erase what had been written, the system writes those orders. There are laughs on the presentation room and the person doing the presentation has no other choice than just eliminate the sentence which was wrong.

Here you have the video, don’t miss one detail:

This video reminds me of another in which a Windows plugamp;play system demonstration was being done and suddenly… Blue screen of death (BSOD)!!!: