Pushing the Limits of Google’s Speech Recognition

Last week I asked readers to pick up the phone and help me test out a feature in Google’s new phone call management service that automatically transcribes voice mail messages. I encouraged creativity, and I got a lot of it. People called up and left all kinds of stuff for Google’s speech-recognition algorithms to puzzle over. The aim here was not to see how well the service, called Google Voice, handles transcriptions of the day-to-day mundanities of voice mail. Google itself acknowleges that th