Re: Proto-Romance

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:30:35AM -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
> Herman Miller wrote:
> > Roger Mills wrote:
> > > someone typing in the spoken words as fast as they can (I suppose rather
> > > like a court reporter)---- and, quite often,  not very accurately--
> > With some of the kinds of mistakes that are made, I've often wondered if
> > they're using something like voice recognition software; they're not the
> > kind of mistakes you'd expect a live person to make.
>
> As a member of the non-wired generation, voice-recog. didn't occur to me,
> but I suspect you're right-- the errors usually involve sound-alikes.
It's actually both.  Most of the time it's automated voice recognition,
but sometimes there's a live human in the loop.  And the
prerecorded/scripted shows have the CC typed up ahead of time, of
course.

-Mark the CNN guy