DUNK?

Many years ago in a research lab several towns away an experiment took place. I answered an ad for speech recognition subjects. They were creating the grandparents of those automated phone systems we all love so much.

It couldn't recognize a word I said 'till I'd taken my tongue ring out. They were against me taking the 8 gauge, 1" piece of surgical stainless steel out of my mouth because it shouldn't make a difference.

Should and does are different. It made a perfect difference and I could become a valid data-point with it out. With it in I was apparently a gibbering fool. Mind you, I was doing phone support at the time, and no humans seemed to have a problem with it.

This all come to mind due to a recent twitter (when I found my phone has an auto-configured voice command mode controlled by a button on the side).

Jott heard:

Having a button that makes your phone ask you who you want to call means that my parents could conceivable trunk dial somebody and I would have no idea.

I said something slightly different.

And it's all out on Twitter now.

And no, not DUNK yet. (DUNK™ Kieron Gillen)

Edited to add: weLL MabyE

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