Bad Google Voice
Posted on 11/12/2009 10:47 am by kagranju
So Jon and I both now have Google Voice and it’s pretty awesome in all kinds of ways. However, the voicemail transcription element of Google Voice is, well, still rather flawed 
But it’s flawed in a terrifically amusing way, meaning that the garbled transcriptions you get via email read like this:
From me to Jon this week:
Hey honey, it’s me. My says that if you call me back to me not get me. I had to rush home and change clothes and i turned it off and I realized approach turn it backon they’ll be freaked out. I don’t have a short of what your dad’s find Armstrong’s why I’m at the airport, about it. I’ll call you when I can. If you try to call me andI’m I’m just not so maybe don’t love you bye.
From my mother to Jon last week:
Hey, jah. It’s Steve, I had a message from Kate directly in puree what’s going on with main. She said to call mister. Bye bye.
So last night I bought the domain name BadGoogleVoice.com, and Jon and I are going to set up a little site over the weekend sometime to let people submit their own ridiculous transcribed Google Voice voicemails for everyone’s amusement. (And I will keep the site up until Google threatens me with hellfire and brimstone, which they probably will in short order. Although maybe they actually have a sense of humor like I’ve heard and will get that I am a publicly declared, huge, raving Google fan who loves Google Voice but just finds the transcription misfires entertaining.)
In the meantime, however, share your own Bad Google Voice voicemail-to-text transcriptions in the comments below.
11/12/2009 at 11:39 am
I’ve got one.
Or how will you seat ham on yesteryear after talking around postoffice trips. Fall you hate.
11/12/2009 at 12:55 pm
Katie, have you seen http://www.textfromlastnight.com? This is like that only not for fraternity party attending college kids. Therefore making it much cleaner, but still as funny.
11/12/2009 at 1:46 pm
Hey Catherine, this is not too. I’m thinking about having Thanksgiving for the gang on the 20 S, which is a Friday, so if I date before Thanksgiving so. But anyway, people will be in town still stop off on 18 months. Larry mother. Hey, so if you could stopping warranty did last year and. Anyway, let me know how to get it. Try to get a head count going alright. Bye bye.
11/12/2009 at 1:47 pm
And my personal favorite:
Hello that, but it’s God. Hello, Mister. Okay, call me back. Love you bye.
11/12/2009 at 7:16 pm
Hmmm…Did you by chance get your car detailed to pick up the Armstrongs (as in DOOCE!) at the airport… Looking forward to heading more about that project!
11/13/2009 at 6:34 am
All those kinds of programs HATE Southern accents. My old boss, the surgeon, tried out three different speech-to-text programs and the results were totally hilarious and completely unusable. The attempts with the medical jargon were particularly awful but even just a simple letter with no medical terms came out totally bizarre. I tried out some other speech-to-text a couple of years ago myself with pretty much the same horrific results.
BTW Katie, something’s hanging your page loading today… everything loads immediately but the blog content, that’s taking a little bit to finally show up.
11/13/2009 at 5:13 pm
Pity that googlevoicefail.com was picked up back in July by what appear to be speculators.
…or not. The whole “blah FAIL” thing can leave the cultural zeitgeist any time it feels like it, if you ask me.
11/20/2009 at 3:55 pm
Hi, Yes, my name is just get up. I’m calling with beating Morgan ain’t we are interested in purchasing some address sons. Basically what we’re looking for his your standard green with your wife like reflective numbers, roughly 3 inches tall. We are looking to purchase around 200 of the m. We are a property management company, we are trying to get some price quite so if you could please give me a call back. My number is (xxx) xxx-xxxx well. I’d love for you guys be able to the price is Felton let us the if, if that’s in that we can work with you. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. Bye bye.