Google Voice Transcriptions
AudioFor those not as nerdy as myself
Google now has a phone service. This phone service gives you one number that you can forward to lots of different numbers simultaneously (your mobile; your home; your car from the late 1980s).
"OK - that is cool," you say. "I like the idea of having one number instead of 4." And so you should. But that is not the best part of Google Voice.
The best part of Google Voice is that it turns your voicemail into email. When someone calls you and leaves a voicemail, Google's super computers transcribe that voicemail and email it to you. For me, someone who has pretty much stopped listening to voicemail because of how long it takes to do so, this is a great thing.
OK BUT: the google transcription is done by machines. And those machines are terrible at speaking english. The transcriptions are understandable, but far from coherent. Read aloud, these transcriptions sound like the ramblings of someone who has read a few descriptions of Allen Ginsberg's poetry.
AND SO: I present to you my dramatic readings of my Voicemail, as transcribed by Google Voice:
Reader Comments (3)
more kerouac than ginsberg i think. burroughs would have loved this of course.
"head up to head up ten pounds at least give everyone a hug" is the comic climax for me.
hilarity gurgles in my throat. bravo.
Matthew, here you hope doing. Fine. Here I'm New York until Thanksgiving, yeah. Oh, Katherine