Fun with Dictation in Mac OSX Mountain Lion...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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If any of you have installed the new Mac OSX Mountain Lion, now’s your chance to generate minutes of fun!

In the Reply Box, double-tap the Function key to activate Dictation mode. Speak complete gibberish, like an alien robot going haywire and post the results here.

I’ll go first…

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By the Duschner it to both not to snore Schnieder bored.

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BP Leo and don’t be back beaten Banche

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Sad I am in New Orleans Naupaka do dinner Fornum room.

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Hey what’s up my man what’s up with that they got going on down there.

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Leaving in a minute about buddy bye-bye

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I laddish number it up at the beach the number noumena did you

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Not “Mountain Lion” but iPhone 4S dictation:
Mayors eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat baby I Kiteley baby to wouldn’t you

I’m impressed with how much of the “call will be good” it was able to decipher correctly. But then it failed to recognize “gobbledygook”!

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Heh. That iPhone one is sorta creepy. No. No I won’t eat baby, let alone put her in the corner. I’m glad the mayor’s getting his portions of grains though.

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@cmyk: for our younger readers, allow me to clarify. The sample I dictated was from a popular tune from the 1940s, “Mairzy Doats”.

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Ahh, I wasn’t aware of that tune. I thought you spoke improvised gibberish, and that’s what resulted (although the lyrics being gibberish themselves, that’s not bad).

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…Oh, oh, dog biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn’t get snappy.

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There also seemed to be a resurrection of this song in children’s music classes in the '90s. When I went to college, quite a few people knew it.

Sorry, BTW, I don’t have any Apple product to test with.

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Yeah, I’m familiar with it, and I was born in the mid-70s.

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I tried this with the Dragon Dictation app on my iPod. I think it just outright ignores most of the gibberish.

“I’m going to happen that I had undergone it but I’m not that we don’t love you Shahaka reward the bag about it I think”

I want to add that speaking in gibberish was extremely pleasurable, and now I understand the whole “speaking in tongues” fad. If I weren’t worried about the looks I’d get, I’d be tempted to do it all the time.

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I’m assuming I’m home and I’m
What I actually said: “hoomalommaseemalommmahoomalommaseemalomma…”